Hi there. Were you searching for information on how to clean your camera
lens? This here is a lens pen, I'm going to show you what it is and how to use it
so don't go away...
Hi there, Barry Callister for Barry Callister Photography here, giving you
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you do. Be sure to check out the video description below for more information
and reviews on the lens pen. Let's jump straight into this tutorial on how to
clean your lens using a lens pen. Okay so this is your lens pen and it's called
that obviously because it looks like a pen. Super-lightweight, small...tiny, if
you're a shirt-wearer you can just pop it in your top shirt pocket no worries. You can
put it in the pocket of your pants, in the back pocket...fits in any space in
your camera bag. Having a look at the lens pen up close here you can see that
it's got the classic pen shape. At one end of it you have this extendable soft
goats hair brush. That's for brushing loose particles off your lens such as
dust and hair and stuff like that. At the other end you have this cap that screws
off and underneath there is your special flexible, soft pad that's infused with a
special carbon compound. Carbon is really good at sucking out grease and grime and
holding it in. So that's what this special pad does to the surface of your
lens, it sucks all the grease and grime off there and holds it in. And up inside
the top end of the cap there you have a foam pad that's infused with this
special carbon compound, so that every time you re-cap the pen, it recharges the
pad and you're ready to go with basically a brand new pen every time.
So to demonstrate, I'll just clean the end of my 55 to 200mm lens here.
It's not greatly dirty, I'm not sure if you can see that
on the video there, it's not all-together that dirty at the moment. So what I'll do is,
I'll do the cardinal sin and we'll put a couple of nice...greasy...fingerprints on
there, which you can probably now see. So there you can see we have a couple of
really nice greazy fingerprints on there and the lens pan will take care of that
no worries. So the first thing we do to remove any loose particles is push
out your soft goats hair brush and just brush the surface of the lens. You can go
in circles around the edges of the lens get the...getting the dust out of
the areas around the lens as well. And brush it off like so. Now that will
remove any loose particles of hair or dust that might have been there. And now
what you need to do....and you can see that you can do all this with one hand. You
don't need to put the lens down to unscrew the cap, you can do it quite
easily with one hand. It's no problems at all. So now what we do to get our nice
greasy fingerprints off there, is you just place the pad in the center of the lens
and just start turning some circles and getting ever-wider and wider with your
circles, and it will just completely remove those fingerprints from your lens.
And it looks pretty clean to me. So if you have any trouble, if there's any
things on there that won't come off, just give it a little huff with your breath
to put some moisture on there and then give it another go over with the carbon
pad, and it should come up a treat. But that right there is a very clean lens.
Now what you can do after that, just to make sure in case any particles are
falling onto the lens again; give it another brush over with your goats hair
brush and you're good to go, you can start shooting again. Now I've not only
got the single lens pen, but I've also got this DSLR Pro kit which has three
lens pens inside...inside of there. And it comes in this microfiber cloth which is
also handy for cleaning the outer surfaces of your camera as well.
You've got an ordinary lens pen here on the right with the gold ring. You've got a
filter clear here in the middle with a silver ring, that's for cleaning your
filters; your UV filters, your ND filters and such. And over here on the
left hand side, you've got the micro Pro which is for cleaning your viewfinder or
the tiny lenses you find on your point-and-shoots.
So here I'm holding the ordinary filter pen on the left-hand side here, and on
the right-hand side is the filter clear. And you can hopefully see the difference
in this shot between them. The ordinary pen has a much more...has much more curve
to its surface than the filter pen. The filter clear pen is a lot flatter. So you
can see on my 50mm prime lens here, this actually has a UV filter on the front
and you can hopefully see from this angle that the filter has a flat surface,
is not convex like the surface of a lens. So it's flat, it's not rounded. And
we'll just screw it off here and you can see that it has a flat surface. And this
is where your filter clear pen comes into play. If you have a look down in the
video description underneath this vid I've popped some links down there for you to
where you can go and read more reviews on the lens pen. You can also purchase
your very own lens pens via those links if you want to. The micro lens pen is
really good for cleaning the lenses on your point-and-shoot cameras. Some of
them have got really tiny lenses and the micro pen will get into those tiny
little nooks and crannies. The micro pro is as I said good
for getting into the small nooks and crannies like your viewfinder, or the
smaller lenses on your point and shoot cameras such as this one here. I mean,
this one hasn't got an exceptionally small front to the lens but this still
would be a lot trickier with larger lens pen. So that's cleaned that up just nicely.
And of course all the pens have the goat's hair brush at the other end.
Now sometimes even when you do a really great job of cleaning your lenses with
your lens pen, you're still gonna end up with spots or blemishes on your photos
because your camera sensor might be dirty, or it could have been something
blowing past in front of the lens, and all sorts of things. Or you might want
to remove something from the photograph that doesn't look good.
I have a tutorial on the spot removal tool in Lightroom classic CC. I've
linked that up right now on the right hand side of the video right now, so go
and have a look at that if you want to. It's an in-depth video on how to use the
spot removal tool and get all those blemishes and spots off your photos.
So there you go, that's how you clean your camera lens using a lens pen. They're a
fantastic product and I'm sure you'll agree. Once you get a hold of one
yourself, you'll never clean your camera lenses any other way. The lens pen
company also make a host of other products for cleaning mobile phone
screens, iPads, computer screens, and a host of other things. I've linked those
up down below as well in the video description, so check those out before
you leave. Also before you leave, if you liked this video hit that like button, and
make sure you subscribe and ding the little notification bell. And be sure to
check out...just in case you've done a crap job of cleaning your lens with the
lens pen, and your photos have spots that you need to remove; check out my
Lightroom spot removal tutorial over on the right hand side of the screen here.
I've linked that up for you right there. I'm Barry Callister for Barry Callister
Photography. Get out there. Take some wicked shots. And I'll see you...soon