There are 36 until Christmas and between now and for several Thursdays in December, I’m going to be featuring some photographic gift ideas that you might find useful and practical.
Today’s Post by Joe Farace
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
It’s the time of year when you might be thinking about what kind of present or stocking stuffer you might want as a gift to your favorite photographer or maybe even yourself.
There’s an old photographer’s saying—it’s one of Farace’s Laws—that if you take care of your equipment it will take care of you. For instance, when cleaning a lens, you shouldn’t douse the front element with cleaning fluid. That stuff is highly viscous and can find its way into all kinds of nooks and crannies and, with repeated use, can cause problems like element separation. That’s just one of the many reasons why I’ve been using a LensPens to clean my lenses for the past 25 plus years.
CLEANing YOUR LENSES
Lenspens have two accessible working ends and are small enough you can clip one in your pocket or toss it in your camera bag or backpack. Which LensPen is the perfect stocking stuffer? Why not start with their ($28.95) DSLR Pro Kit that contains everything the average photographer might need to keep their camera lenses, viewfinders and filters clean.
The DSLR Pro Kit includes:
- An Original LensPen for DSLR and mirrorless camera lenses. This is a full size LensPen that has a concave cleaning tip that’s designed to match the slightly convex shape of a camera lens
- A FilterKlear for cleaning lens filters, such as protective, UV, Haze as well as color filters for all of the film photographers, infrared photography and and monochrome digital camera shooters out there. It’s a full-size pen that has a completely flat cleaning tip to match up with any size of camera filters.
- The MicroPro is designed for cleaning viewfinders, either optical for DSLRs and film cameras or EVF’s for mirrorless camera shooters. It’s LensPen’s smallest pen and it’s crafted especially to clean any kind of viewfinder, sensor or other small optics or surfaces
The DSLR Pro Kit comes in a handy microfiber carrying pouch which doubles as a cleaning cloth for many other cleaning applications.
Knockoff alert: For more than 25 years, LensPen has provided safe, environmentally friendly glass and optics cleaning products. The cleaning tip used on LensPen products has a unique carbon compound that’s specifically intended to remove fingerprints and other assorted schmootz from your cameras and lenses. Beware of imitations and fake copies of LensPen products that sometimes have nothing on the cleaning tip and can damage the lens and LCD surfaces they’re meant to clean.
LensPen is a long-time sponsor of my sites and blogs but I was using their products long before I even had a blog. My wife bought me my first LensPen in 1994 just after I acquired a Nikon N90s film-based SLR! I would like to thank LensPen for their continued support.
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