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Over forty and thirty years ago I used to clean up my lenses with Kodak lens cleaning paper not available any longer, so I appreciate the same way the Tiffen product just similar.Don’t use your t-shirt to clean your lens, use a decent lens cleaning fluid and this lens tissue. This tissue gives good results without damaging your glass. Remove large particles of dust and dirt first with a hand-powered “blower” and lens brush, then finish with this tissue. You will spend much less time in post getting rid of those dust specks on your photos. I’ve used Tiffin lens tissue for years and highly recommend it.Well, Kodak no longer makes these tissues. Most small photo shops, where you would pick one up for fifty cents or a dollar, are gone.Apparently Tiffen took over (or always made?) the Kodak tissue making factory. So, these are the same or close enough and are basically, the only game in town.Zeiss makes a “Wet One/KFC” style lens cleaning thing. It’s pretty good too. Walmart sells em cheap either in electronics or the camping and hunting area. These are only for lenses! You’ll have to clean up your greasy fingers with a real hand wipe.It is important to also buy a good air blower (do not user canned air) to blow out the glass before using these cleaners. I have tried many blowers and the Giotto Rocket is the best hands down. Get the big one. Get one for use at home and one for your bag (if you are a pro).After you give the lens a good blowing off, use a bit of this tissue to dust off any particles that blowing would not remove. Then carefully take a tissue, put a few drops of lens cleaning liquid (for camera lenses) on it and very, very gently wipe the leans clean from the center to outside. Be VERY gentle!Heres the part they do not tell you. Get an old 100% cotton T shirt - FOL cotton undershirts are good. It MUST be 100% cotton and clean. Cut some handkerchief size square pieces. Discard the arm pits, neck seam, and bottom seam. And any other stitched parts. Jut the cloth is all you will use. After the cleaner has evaporated off, you may see some discoloration of it left on the lens. With your mouth, breath some vapor onto the lens so it fogs up and wipe it with the cotton cloth. It should now look perfect.Some old timers skip the cleaner and this tissue entirely and just do the warm breath and the cotton cloth. I only use the cleaner and cloth (or the Zeiss wipes) on used lenses I buy that are dirty or at the end of a long trip with the equipment in dirty places and outdoors a lot.I found that the newer lenses do not seem to leave as much residue however, it also seems to depend on the type of lens, macro vs. tele vs. prime and brand too. Cheaper seems to leave behind more residue than more costly.This paper is identical to the old Kodak lens tissue, the Gold Standard. As an old assistant cameraman from NYC, learned a whole lot of ways to clean $30,000 lenses: NEVER use anything but lens tissue, NEVER flat, NEVER first. Blow the surface off first, then carefully, circularly brush with a lipstick brush that has never been touched, or roll a piece of lens tissue from the end (like a joint, not touching the center section) and pull it apart in to two halves. The torn edge is the softest, non-scratching "brush", used wet and dry.The enemy of a lens is the scratch. Dust on a lens is of no consequence to the quality of the image until it is thickly filthy. Hopefully, it will "puff" off with a rubber blower. A scratch degrades the image: the light passing through the scratch is affected like a prism would bend it, arriving at the focal plane out of place. So, DON'T CLEAN A LENS UNLESS IT'S GOT A FINGERPRINT ON IT (corrodes the coatings as well as degrades the image) or other serious caca. NEVER 'scrub' the lens, lightly make perfectly circular swipes with a moistened (lens cleaning fluid only) - NEVER DRY and NEVER FLAT. If you happen to scratch the surface, a circular scratch is far less damaging to the image. Wad the tissue, soak it and "wash" the lens several times until the surface problem is gone. When it drys, you'll see 'stains', like an oil slick on water. Repeat to minimize these. NEVER have your finger pressing on a flat piece of tissue - wet or dry - (a sure way to make a scratch if a tiny piece of grit is present) until the very last step in cleaning.You've removed all the surface contamination, so NOW you can use two or three layers dry (slightly damp is better) and flat (wadded is safer) to lightly, circularly, remove the last of the 'stains'. So, BLOW, BRUSH, WASH, DRY. Miss any of these first three steps and you risk leaving grit on the surface - a scratch waiting for you to create it. I usually used around 10 -12 sheets of tissue for each cleaning - NEVER use the same piece of tissue twice, and if suspect you touched the surface of the tissue with anything - finger, table surface ,etc. - throw it away, it's contaminated.Note: Can't IMAGINE using even a pristine, always-kept-in-a- sealed-container microfiber cloth more that ONCE. You're just kidding yourself and micro scratching your lens...You have to use a light touch when cleaning camera lens and you should always use blower first to remove loose particles and then a lens cleaning brush if any particles remain. If your lens is still dirty you can use these extremely thin rice paper like wipes with a couple of drops of cleaning solution. They have been used for years by photographers who want to delicately clean their lenses instead of reusing a cleaning cloth which may have particles on it from previous wiping. (I no longer use the cloths unless brand new or emergency). However there are more substantial lintfree cloths that are still very soft and lintfree. A popular brand is Pec Pads. I prefer them much more but still keep some of these thin papers in my bag in case there's just one tiny spot I need to clean.BEST Lens Cleaning tissue one can get. EXCELLENT. Leaves no LINT on the lens surface. One must know the proper way of using it.good product, fast deliveryGood lens tissuesThese are great and hard to find!As expected
