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Personally not a huge fan of the Zeiss wipes, seems to be too much solution on them.
The Target Brand...yes Target Brand wipes are great. Just enough solution to clean and not be abrasive and also evaporate without wet streaks on the lens. Also extremely cheap (the bottle version of the solution is nice as well.)
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Hench, the "beat the crap out of them" step. Wipe them on my shirt or any nearby rag as needed.
I don't know how people can clean their glasses on their clothing. I've only ever managed to make them more dirty and harder to see through. It always feels like a delicate act to get my lenses cleaner even with a microfiber lense cloth.
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That's not true. My glasses are super light and the thickness is not a concern whatsoever. I can shake my head back and forth with my head down and they don't move at all. And for the past decade since my Rx got particularly bad I have always found the aberrations annoying, so no, I won't "just get used to them". I can't stand chromatic aberrations because they make everything outside of the centre of the lens blurry…
Yeah, I've stepped down from the highest index I've used due to the aberrations. Material and grinding techniques have improved since then in general, but it was quite distracting - shift my head a degree or two and bam, rainbow, and further to the edges of the lens it'd be 3+ distinct colored images of every light source. It was kinda neat to be a walking spectroscope, and see what different light sources produced.…
https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Moistened-Lens-Cleaning-Wipes-Eff... You can thank me later! Never leave home without a bunch of these.
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After you’ve water-bulled with the little drops of water how did you get the water off without leaving any streaks? This laminar flow approach collects them up and rolls them off as larger drops so the surface is left dry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0wZLGrxuKg
I rubbed until there was no water.
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Wash with cold water. Warm or hot water might ruin the coating. This is why I worry about radiant heat from fires while camping or burning yard debris. Plastic lenses are usually opaque to IR and that means they're heating up even more than you might think.
Another reason to consider glass lenses.
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Can you even get glass lenses anymore? I don’t recall seeing it as an option the last time I ordered a pair but maybe since Zenni tends to focus on affordability they don’t bother offering the (presumably more expensive) option.
Yes https://lensfactory.com/ They are so much better.