[Leica] Contest: most unusual lens cleaning technique

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Don Dory said:
>>>Ted,
I've done a search of the archives and it just says you wiped off the lens
and kept shooting.  I would assume that you unbagged your shorts :) and got
on about your business.  But when you finished for the day, relaxing in the
room with just the odor of fresh cow in the field, what did you clean up
your camera and lens with?  Enquiring minds want to know. :)<<<<<<

Oh that's easy.
I used Kleenex and the face cloths in the bathroom of the hotel :-)

Wiped the camera and lens as clean as we could with the Kleenex, then 
dampened the face cloth and wiped it clean. :-) By then of course what was 
left was dried-up so it was wet clothes for most of it.

It's no big deal you live with it as you're on assignment in the field so 
what to do? Sit there and cry about cow shit all over your camera? :-) 
Besides we'd already got the bulk off while still in the barn where the 
bovine blast struck because we were still shooting and had to carry on! ;-)

Used a nail file tip wrapped in Kleenex around the lens barrel next to the 
glass and other spots where we couldn't get a finger nail right at the 
remains. Then called house keeping for more clean face cloths! :-)

It worked fine, but when we had to shoot outdoors' in the sun next day it 
was a little "odorous" one might say. Today? Sometimes I swear I can still 
catch a whiff! ;-) But I think that's psychological imaginary. ;-)

ted