I use lens tissue to wipe them off.
no matter how I wipe it is impossible to wipe the smears off. I don't want to wipe too hard in case I damage the coating. The smears are not visible when you look at it perpendicularly. but it is visible when you look at it at and angle to the light.
what lens cleaning fluid do you use?
Does it affect your image quality?
Maybe you can try using a lenspen.
hi people,
after I clean the lens with eclipse solution, there is always some smears (when u look at the surface on an angle) left behind which is impossible to remove.
Is this normal? or is there better lens cleaning solution around?
no such problem unless whatever i put the eclipse solution on is dirty.
what are you using it with?
besides, even if it's there, it doesn't affect your picture to be honest. i wonder why people are always so anal about things that don't matter.
I am using eclipse with lens tissue.
ya... it doesn't really affect the picture. Actually the lens 14-24mm was ok except one tiny speck. then I itchy finger decided to use eclipse and now it looks even dirtier than before with the smears. It looks like oil stains, maybe from my hand after holding the tissue.
Breath on the lens and wipe with a clean section of microfiber cloth or chamois.
I used to be so paranoid abt smears & dusts like the TS until the day I messed up my $170 brand-new CPL filter with a lenspen... After that I learned how to focus more on composing pictures rather than searching for dust, etc
i'm using Eclipse with Pec Pads also... i noticed that if drop too many drops on the pec pads and wipe on lens, it would be very tough to make it clean without smears... i now drop one drop on the pad and wipe on lens... clean with another piece of clean pad till it dry totally... clean with microfiber cloth at last... no smears now...
agree. Breath on lens, should able to wipe off.