While it may seem simple, in that location is actually an appropriate fashion to clean a camera lens. There are certain tools to apply and certain ones to avoid to ensure that you are cleaning the lens without scratching any of the glass elements. Nosotros found a few swell videos that prove guys how to clean a camera lens.

How to Safely Clean Your Camera Lens | Video Tutorial

After several long months of saving your pennies, skipping your favorite Starbucks habit for far too long, hoarding your taxation return (what tax return, y'all're a business owner?!), you lot finally buy the lens you've been eyeballing on B&H since concluding Christmas. Holding the new lens in your mitt is as magical equally you imagined it to be. And then there comes a solar day when y'all have to clean this fragile affair of beauty and y'all take hold of the edge of your t-shirt…

clean-lenses

Stop right there. Practise Non clean your lenses with the shirt off your back. There are amend, safer and more effective ways to do so, and the following video gives an in-depth expect at one through and condom way to clean your photographic camera lens. The 7-minute video beneath is a few years old, but is yet a helpful guide to cleaning your lens properly.

In this lens cleaning method, Evan Luzi from the Youtube channel, The Black and Bluish, uses the following items:

  • Maglite Mini Flashlight
  • Cleaning Fluid (He uses Pancro)
  • Lens Cleaning Tissue (He uses Kimwipes)
  • Compressed air, bulb blower, or brush (He uses Grit-Off)

For those of you that are fastidious about cleaning your lenses, this is definitely the video for you.  See our list of the Best Camera Lens Cleaners for more than tips.

For more photography and filmmaking tips for camera administration, check out the Black and Blue blog here.

Of course, this is simply one of the many methods yous can use to clean your lenses, what method do yous employ?

How Not to Clean Your Camera and Lens

As a bonus, here'due south a trivial bit of comedy nosotros found.  Conspicuously, I've been cleaning my Canon 5D Mark Two all wrong because the following tutorial shows you how to get your camera squeaky make clean. All you need is a bowl of h2o and some soap, get a expert amount on the sensor and make sure you lot rub it in with your fingers really well to get that soap working. Then hose it downwards and voila! Lather, rinse, repeat.

Before any of you lot reading this recall I am being serious, I am not . DO NOT TRY THIS AT Domicile (or ANYWHERE). Seriously. Just don't do it. The post-obit video tutorial made by Ioannis Pavlis is meant to exist a joke. It is non real, and no, yous should never, ever clean your camera this way. The only fourth dimension you lot should submerge your very expensive photographic camera in h2o is when it is safely encased in underwater camera housing, like the Aquatec.

Alas, though this video is cringeworthy for any photographer to watch, I merely know that someone out there isn't going to get the joke and attempt to practice this, destroying their gear. Simply don't exercise it and don't get mad either (like some of the commenters on the YouTube page), it's all in practiced, clean fun (pun intended).

I'm going to venture a gauge that the camera and lens he used were probably not in working order…and peculiarly non after that cleaning.  And just a reminder, just in case y'all thought, "Hey, I'grand gonna endeavour this"…DON'T! To properly care for your camera, please refer to this rest of the article beneath, where we provide you with tips to safely clean your camera.