hi all
I ve made the leap and purchase a high end pair of binoculars, leica trinovids.
and there grate, can anyone give any tips on keeping them clean and in good order. tried with cleaning kit given to me with the bins but it seems to smear a lot and take ages to clean what are the best products and where can I get them.
cheers all.
Congratulations. I have no special tricks, but I would just leave them dirty until you figure it out.Try a camera store. The less often you need to clean them the better. The slight dirt does not affect your view all that much.
[QUOTE=ali travers]hi all
I ve made the leap and purchase a high end pair of binoculars, leica trinovids.
and there grate, can anyone give any tips on keeping them clean and in good order. tried with cleaning kit given to me with the bins but it seems to smear a lot and take ages to clean what are the best products and where can I get them.
cheers all.[/QUOTE]I think it's impossible to clean a lens easily using a cloth. So much depends on the cloth soaking up all the "dirt" and that's unlikely by the laws of physics, probably.
I use on of those large puffers to get rid of any surface dirt then, use isopropanol bought from my local chemist's in combination with ear buds and two microfibre cloths.
That said, I'm also sure another perfectly safe way would be to take advantage of the entirely waterproof nature of the bins and hold the lenses under gently running water before using the isopropanol. I would guess that a soft-haired clean paint brush could even be used with a non-detergent based soap (like Ecover) to get rid of grease marks. The important thing is to make quite sure that even micro-particles of grit are removed before wiping with a cloth - the puffer brush and running water should achieve this.
There was a long thread on BF about this about a year or so back - you could search for htis.