can you clean your camera lens using the same cloth for your glasses?

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Lelu

or can you only use a special cloth for the camera lens?
also, it's a digital camera. i wouldn't even think about touching it... but someone has, and there's an oily fingerprint smack center of the lens >:(

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If it's a nice and clean microfiber cloth, or even cotton, then yes. I know of some people wearing glasses that are more expensive than my SLR lens (just the lenses, leave alone the designer frame), so if they can entrust their $1000 glasses to that piece of cloth, why not your lens?

Here's a link to all you wanted to know about lens cleaning and more:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/cleaning.htm

LEM.

Can I use a shoe mitt to clean my camera lens?

Alexis

I picked up a shoe mitt from the hotel I was just staying at thinking it might come in handy for cleaning my camera lens. However, I do not want to scratch my lens and I'm not sure if it will or not. If anyone knows whether or not a shoe mitt would be a good lens cleaning tool, could you please let me know? Thanks!

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If you never touch your lens, you'll never need to clean it. Use a rocket blocker to remove dust.

If you do need to remove a finger print, use a microfibre cloth specifically for the purpose, they are cheap so why bother with something else?

I can't remember the last time I needed to clean my lenses.

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