What's the best method for cleaning the exterior of old legacy lenses?
I picked up a huge lot of old hexanons, Yashicas, fujinons, minoltas, canons, etc. today and some are dusty or dirty, where as the lenses are fairly clean. All in all 63 lenses and over 40 old 35mm camera bodies and about a dozen rangefinder bodies. About 1/2 of the lenses were dirty and had fungus. It's a shame. Some of them were pretty decent lenses to start. Not worth getting restored I presume.
For the lenses with good fungus-free glass, but dusty bodies, what's a good cleaner/solvent that won't "get inside" something that will evaporate, yet clean the dirt off the exterior of the lens bodies?
Rubbing alcohol?
Should I use a small paint brush, a soft tooth brush, or just a micro fiber towel?
Thanks,
Q
I picked up a huge lot of old hexanons, Yashicas, fujinons, minoltas, canons, etc. today and some are dusty or dirty, where as the lenses are fairly clean. All in all 63 lenses and over 40 old 35mm camera bodies and about a dozen rangefinder bodies. About 1/2 of the lenses were dirty and had fungus. It's a shame. Some of them were pretty decent lenses to start. Not worth getting restored I presume.
For the lenses with good fungus-free glass, but dusty bodies, what's a good cleaner/solvent that won't "get inside" something that will evaporate, yet clean the dirt off the exterior of the lens bodies?
Rubbing alcohol?
Should I use a small paint brush, a soft tooth brush, or just a micro fiber towel?
Thanks,
Q