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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: lens cleaning...Skivvies
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 08:04:50 -0700 (PDT)

One word of warning, make sure you use 100% cotton
when you do this. Using "wash and wear" material with
nylon, polyester, or other synthetic fabrics can
scratch lens coatings. 
- --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Gene Jenkins asked:
> >> I have boxer shorts made out of different and
> jockeys out of another.
> What
> > kind of cloth are we looking for? What about tee
> shirt material?
> 
> 
> Hi Gene,
> You want the soft cotton jockey material.  T-shirt
> material would be OK as
> I've used them lots of times over the years during a
> shoot while still on my
> back! ;-)
> 
> The undershorts are best from the sit upon part, as
> your butt has ground
> them down to an extremely soft cloth and make
> excellent lens cleaning cloth
> after obviously being washed.
> 
> I realize there are some folks here, new and old,
> who poo-poo this use, but
> then as usual it's from people who've never done it.
> 
> hell I used them on the lenses for my old Speed
> Graphic and it's still as
> unscratched today as it was 50 years ago. All so my
> R & M glass new and old
> look just fine.
> 
> Give it a try and you'll have more money for film or
> new gear, instead of
> wasting it on that expensive fancy cloth stuff.
> ted
> 
> 
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