How to Clean Camera Lens with Camera Cleaning Kit

You have a wide range of choices when it comes to cleaning your camera lenses. Consider using free household items if you want to save money. Or, if you want to spend money on a professional camera, you may pick up a camera cleaning kit.
 
The best option to maintain your camera's optics and take better pictures is to utilize a cleaning kit, which is what the majority of professionals use to clean camera lenses.
 
Camera Lens Cleaning Kit
It's usually advisable to spend money on a lens cleaning kit if you want a clean camera and lens. They typically come with a variety of instruments, such as lens cleaning solution, cleaning tissues, spray, microfiber cloth, and a blower, and are rather affordable. While every kid is different, most include practically everything you need to clean a dusty camera lens.
 
Blower

Use a blower to blow away dust from your lens if you don't want to carry around a big turkey baster in your camera bag. The first thing you should use to clean your camera's glass is a lens blower. With this, you can effortlessly clean your lens because it removes dust without requiring any contact.
 
Lens pen

One of our favorite tools to utilize is a lens pen. It resembles a pen but has an attachment that looks like cloth at one end and a brush at the other. To remove dirt and remove any extra dust, just use the brush first. To clean fingerprints and smudges off your lenses, turn the pen over and use the microfiber cloth attachment.

 
Microscopic Cloth

You may easily remove bothersome fingerprints from your camera lens by using a lens microfiber cloth. A microfiber cloth might already be lying around your house. They can be used for a variety of tasks, such as drying dishes and cleaning objects like your computer screen and eyeglasses. Because they are constructed of thousands of tiny fibers sewn together to form a soft and safe material, they aid in lens cleaning.  You should always keep one.
 
Cleaning steps
Use a blower or brush to blast and wipe as much debris and dust from your DSLR lens as you can while tilting your camera downward. A lens pen also works nicely in this situation. Before moving on to the following phase, the air and your brush should remove the large, easily moved particles.
 
A wipe, cleaning cloth, or tissue should contain a few drops of lens cleaning solution. Start in the center of the lens and gently work your way outwards in a circular motion while applying medium pressure to the glass. Continue the process by adding additional fresh tissues and wipes as necessary.
 
Finally, give your lens one more cleaning with a microfiber cloth. Any streaks and fingerprints that the previous procedure failed to eliminate should be cleaned away. 
 
Things to avoid when cleaning your camera lens
There are also a few things you should keep away from doing when cleaning a camera lens. As was already noted, if you don't know what you are doing, you risk damaging your valuable materials. Let's look at some key things to stay away from when cleaning your lens.
 
First canned air should never be used. The air is too forceful to clean your camera's lens without risking harm to the glass.
 
Next, remember that you should only use your microfiber cloth a few times. After that, it deteriorates to the point that it resembles sandpaper. Therefore, avoid using the same microfibre repeatedly. This also applies to lens tissue. You should only use it once before discarding it.
 
Do not spray cleaning agents straight onto your lens, as was also mentioned above. Instead, apply the fluid to your glass by spraying it onto a cloth or wipe. Furthermore, never clean a lens with your shirt or any other material.
 
Finally, always take your camera and lens to a professional if you have any questions. If you're a regular customer, many camera shops will offer discounted or free cleaning. Just as crucial as a clean lens is a clean camera sensor. Check the condition of each component of the lens.
 
Test your cleaning result
 
i. Hold your camera's lens to infinity and look for any dust, fingerprints, or smudges.
ii. Shoot a simple light and dark surface. You can determine how clean your camera lens is by seeing if any specks appear on the plain background.
iii. Examine your previous pictures more closely. To check for dust particles and surface smudges.
iv. Be sure to inspect the front element, which refers to both the front and the rear parts. Many times, photographers overlook the possibility of dirt becoming lodged in the rear optics.