Cleaning Your Lens | Lens Care

Basic instruction on how to take care of your lens, made especially for beginners. Brought to you by: http://www.michaelthementor.com :)

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Education

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• Lens
• Clean
• Cleaning
• Care
• UV Filter

[STEPPHAN7]

Michael hi, I just saw a tiny spot of newly germinating fungus inside of my 100mm macro lens. Any ideas/options as to how I can kill it .

[MichaelTheMentor]

@STEPPHAN7 Clean it with a sensor cleaning kit!

[CobaltFoxStudio]

Great video, what's your opinion on lenspen?

[MichaelTheMentor]

@CobaltFoxStudio They are pretty handy in the field for a quick clean up. If they get wet or dirty tho, they are kinda useless. I carry one in my bag with me.

[MichaelTheMentor]

@JohnElwyn Im not a chemist by no means, but uh...are you saying water evaporates faster than alcohol? Did you know you really CAN clean your gear & filters with plain ol water? I can also see you have pretty poor people teaching skills, so I wont answer why using both a common name, as well as a chemical name may be helpful for different viewers who have different stuff laying around that house. Thanks for the negative input anyway & no hard feelings!

[MichaelTheMentor]

@photogramistic See you still don't get it...while the video may not be the best quality, most viewers still watch and appreciate it. And I would much rather make "poor" quality videos that teach good info, than to randomly attack people on Youtube like a jerk.

[zenoist2]

Any sort of cover is good.

You dont need anything fancy just a protective barrier.

Microfibre cloths are good for cleaning and cheap too.

[STEPPHAN7]

PS Keep up the great work !

[STEPPHAN7]

Thanks Michael ,but I didn't explain clearly, it's actually growing on the inside of the lens barrel on one of the elemens of glass. Ill need to have it professionally serviced :(. I 'regularly' use a rocket blaster on my lenses even if I dont use them regularly.

[Photoshopuzr]

Michael great videos man, keep up the good work, and please dont give attention to the flamers it makes them feel there deeds are well done and only give more rise to more flamers. This will not stop them but at least they will have no comfort to continue. Cheers

[MichaelTheMentor]

@sunburntbum2 Thanks- Just pop off the viewfinder cup (squeeze it on the sides and slide up) and clean with alcohol and cotton swabs.

[sunburntbum2]

@MichaelTheMentor ignore him bud, hes probably just some retarded kid trying to get a rise. just wanted to comment as I saw you taking a lot of flak for no reason, and I personally really appreciate your videos, theyre really detailed and are some of the best educational photography videos ive found =), so keep it up!! A question I did have is I have some dust/crud in my eyepiece on a 550D, how would you recommend going about cleaning it?