How to clean your glasses, sunglasses or camera filters?
We touch our glasses regularly. While the COVID-19 coronavirus can remain active on surfaces for days, we need to wash and disinfect the things we touch more frequently. This video shows how to clean and disinfect your glasses. You should wash your glasses the same way you wash your hands after getting home. Here's how to do it.
First and foremost, never clean your glasses with toilet paper, which contains wood fibers that can damage them. Never use 100% cotton cloths, which can be filled with dust and abrasive particles.
Although there are specific cleaning solutions, never use them if you don't want to waste your money. The cost of water, a drop of isopropyl alcohol, and a drop of dish soap is practically nothing compared to the cost of cleaning solutions.
Simply remove the dust from your glasses with warm water. Then, apply the dish soap to both sides. Rinse with tap water, then do a final rinse with distilled water. Distilled water is necessary if your tap water is hard. Then dry with compressed gas or a hot air blower. Your lenses will be clear and clean without any scratches.
Now here are the different steps: clean your hands to remove grease from your fingers. Rinse your lenses with warm water to remove dust from them. Put just a small amount of dish soap between your fingers. Dish soap is designed to remove oil and grease residue from your dishes. This is exactly what you want to do on your lenses! You want to remove grease marks!
Using your fingers, carefully apply the liquid, using circular motions on each side of the lenses. You can also apply dish soap to the rest of the frame, including the bridge and other parts. Rinse your lenses under warm water, which will remove the dish soap. Don't use your fingers when rinsing. If your tap water is hard, it means it contains calcium and magnesium minerals. Then you'll need to rinse your lenses with distilled water.
After rinsing your lenses, shake or pat your lenses against your leg to remove any water droplets. Now, use a hot air blower or compressed gas to remove any water that remains after shaking. If you're using distilled water, there's no need to use an air blower. Distilled water will clean the lenses without leaving any traces of salt.
All prescription and sunglasses lenses often come with a small cloth. Opticians include this cloth for one reason: they want you to come back to them more often! Any other cloths or toilet paper will damage your lenses because they contain abrasive particles. Additionally, cloths and paper spread dust over the entire surface of the lens.
When using compressed air, press the trigger gently, as there may be liquid in the gas jet. If this happens, you'll need to repeat the cleaning process with dish soap and water. You can only remove any remaining water from the edges of the lenses.
A note about alcohol! Some people claim that alcohol can remove the lens coating and can cause fogging. For cleaning, I use isopropyl alcohol, especially when the lenses are very oily, and I've never noticed any problems. Isopropyl alcohol is used in commercial lens cleaning wipes.
The same technique can be used to clean camera filters when shooting with a DSLR camera. Clean them with dish soap, rinse them, and then give them a final rinse with distilled water. Afterward, remove any drops with a blower. Unfortunately, this technique cannot be used to clean the front elements of your lenses.
Voiceover in French: RP Singh
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