By Cleaning a camera lens properly takes about five minutes and requires just three tools: a rocket blower, a microfiber cloth, and lens cleaning solution. The technique matters more than the products. Most lens damage doesn’t come from dust or fingerprints, but from aggressive cleaning with the wrong materials or unnecessary wiping when a simple puff of air would suffice.
Here’s what photographers get wrong: they clean too often and too roughly. That smudge you’re obsessing over in your viewfinder? It probably won’t show up in your images unless you’re shooting at f/16 or smaller. A few specks of dust are…
