I got a fingerprint on my camera lens. How do I clean the lens?

There is lens paper, eye glasses wipes and in a real emergency a new dollar bill. However, hold the lens put a nickle on it and look through it; you notice you don't see it. Don't worry too much about the finger print.

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I use a lens pen similar to this:
http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/221660...

Here's another helpful link:
http://www.ehow.com/how_113922_remove-fi...

You can use a microfiber towel, since it won't leave scratches on the lens. Just make sure the towel is clean before you use it, so you're not inadvertently rubbing in dirt, which will scratch.

I use Nice'n Clean brand Lens Cleaner wipes. I keep them handy not only for my camera but my glasses, computer screen, etc. They are $1.97 for 30 wipes at WalMart. They work great and they don't scratch.

use a basic eyeglasses cloth, or, there are wet wipes they make

Use a non-abrasive cloth, dampened with a bit of rubbing alcohol.

By cleaning with a soft synthetic cloth or a special lens paper that you can get at the local medical equipment shop.

A fingerprint on the lens isn't as bad as you might think because dirt and contamination (and fingerprints) won't show up on the film. Instead, there is a small loss of visual contrast and a slight fuzziness that shows up. You'd need to be a very picky photographer to detect which photos were made with a fingerprint on the lens and which ones weren't.

Nonetheless, I like clean lenses too. Kodak sells lens cleaning fluid in a small squeeze bottle and lens cleaning tissues for photographic lenses (check out your local photographic supply store). The tissues are clean and abrasive free. The lens cleaning solution won't attack the CaF lens coatings.

One thing to be very careful about and this may not be obvious: never put a liquid lens cleaning solution on your lense (it can get sucked inside the lense via capillary action; you'll never get the lense dried out, it must be disassembled - you'd be better off buying a new lens). Instead, put the lense cleaning solution on the lens tissue (only), then apply the dampened tissue to the lens surface, to limit the amount of available cleaning liquid. Or, use a cleaning pen.

You'll be able to keep your lens clean with these tools. Some lens surfaces are hard to clean because they are recessed: a cotton swab can be used in a similar manner, but you may want to do the final wipe with the lens tissue (using a cotton swab to push on the lens tissue).

You can get 100% isopropyl alcohol (IPA) at some pharmacies or grocery stores - don't use the 70% grade, it will leave water spots. Clean, 100% IPA solution won't leave waterspots and won't hurt the lens coatings. Never put any used cleaning solution back in the original container. so the cleaning liquid remains pristine. Sometimes IPA can be used to remove oil-based contaminants (like fingerprints) better than water-based lens cleaning solution, followed by the Kodak cleaning solution.

You'll want to use VERY gentle pressure (or no pressure at all) cleaning the lense, in case there are microscopic abrasive particles around, which there usually are. It's the abrasive particles, not the cleaning solutions, that are your greatest enemy for lens damage. It's a good idea to use some 'canned air' to blow off the dust from the lens before cleaning if you have some. If you've been taking beach pictures near the ocean, you will have more chance of abrasive sand (and salt) on the lens than if the photos were all indoor. Besides, pressure is probably not necessary to remove fingerprints, just a gentle circular motion starting in the center of the lens, with one of the cleaning liquids mentioned above.

use an eyeglass cleaning cloth. if the lens is small, put a Q-tip inside the cloth to assist with the size

Use a Q-tip.

U can use some glass cleaner if you want. just put a little on the Q-tip.

For about $3 you can go to Click Camera or any other camera store and pick up a lens cloth. They are inexpensive and do a very good job cleaning off oils dirt and dust off of a lens. I am a professional photographer and this is what I have been using for years.

Use the same cloth that you find with the glasses people wear

Lens cleaner. They sell this at your camera/photo shops. It will have the cleaner solution, lens paper/tissue, as well as a little blower bulb brush.

Use a cotton-bud it'll fit and tigether with a small amount of the right cleaning liquid, it'll do just fine.

Windex or a regular eye glass cleaner. You are better off using a cottonball also.

A microfiber lens cloth will do the trick.

a little rubbing alcohol on a Q tip

My Dad always kept another protective lens over the main lens of the camera which if IT is marked by fingerprints or dirt is easier to clean and there is not a danger of scatching the actual camera lens. Of course this was for non-digital manual cameras of 20 or more years ago.

Try a cotton sheet

The best way to do it is use a clean paper towel and rub it easy for a minute . that should do it. do not use cloth because that might scratch your lense.

lens cleaner, and those pretty little tissues they give you to clean your glasses with... geeky?
if you don't want it to get scratched they don't use any paper towels, tissues, or toilet paper... they are very bad!!

Go to an eye glass store, or go right into Wlamart where they sell eye glasses and supplies. Buy a bottle of the eye glass cleaning solution and spray the lens or if you are worried about the solution gettin into the camera, (spray the cloth first and then wipe clean) and then wipe it clean with a cloth made for lenses. This will clean it good, and will not harm the lens.
Hope it helps.

use a clean no lint towel with rubbing alcohol

Go to your nearest Ritz Camera and pick up a packet of lens paper. It shouldn't cost you more than a couple of dollars. Once you get the lens paper, breathe on the lens to fog it up and wipe it with a piece of lens paper. WARNING: Using any other type of cloth or tissue and you risk scratching the lens, and using any type of solvent and you risk ruining the optics. Don't chance it. Lens paper and your breath are the best things to use on camera lenses.

If you are close to a RADIO SHACK or any similar store ask for TFT spray cleaner , You can use the VIDEO TAPE CLEANER as well.

Apply it with a qtip and you should be fine...
Good luck.

Mr Muscle

all i can say is good luck. i have been using cameras for 35 years and i have not found a way to clean them as good as i like. these days with digital cameras i give it away or sell it then buy a new one.

the microfiber answer sounds good to me. but i have not tried it.

go to a glass place and tell them you got dirt on your len and you lost your rag that you need a new one

clean it with COLIN.

With and unwet towel

you could always go **** in a hat and then smear it on the lens.