I just buy a pack of 200 Zeiss Lens Wipes every 6 months (~£12).
They are amazing and quick. Money well spent.
How I clean my glasses
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#152I switched to contact lenses (monthlies first and then to dailies) and I do not miss any of these cleaning rituals.
I wish I could do this but I really can’t. The dailies dry out super fast, and sometimes fall out. And then they stick causing a weird lag when I move my eyes too fast. Maybe it’s my eye shape but I wanted to love contacts and really couldn’t make it work.
Sorry about your experience! Looks like your lenses are pretty thick - probably you have large +- prescription? For me, my myopia is not very strong, so dealing with thinner lenses alleviates the problems your described.
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#153Odd article. Claims to be inspired by camera lens cleaning methods, but I've never heard of any photog using an "oil remover", and certainly not an ultrasonic cleaner.
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I use similar method, except: - Do not apply soap to the lenses. Soap is too thick. Apply it to your fingers and rub between fingers to dilute with a bit of water before applying to glasses. - Use your fingertips as abrasive. Soap is there to dissolve any fats but your fingertips (if clean) are best material to remove anything from your glasses without scratching the surface. - Few faucets give good laminar flow. I j…
I second this. Don’t use any kind of cloth. Just blow over your glasses a few times, droplets will disappear. Even finest cloth will leave scratches over time. Also it will reapply dirt and grease that naturally builds up as you use it
Instead of wiping with cloth, I use a hair dryer in cold setting.
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#155The best method I’ve found so far: 1. Get your glasses wet with warm water. 2. Apply dish soap to both lenses. 3. Gently rub the soapy water over the lenses. For some stubborn things (like sunscreen) in the edges I sometimes gently use a Q-tip. 4. Rinse under warm water. Gently rub with your fingers to agitate the soapy water and help rinse it off. 5. (This is the important step) Adjust the faucet’s flow to a low lam…
Exactly how I do it. There's no easier way to clean lenses.
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#156I read this and was baffled. I've never broken a pair of glasses. The article made me realize I needed to clean my glasses. I wiped them off with a wipe from a pack of wipes I always use.
A few hours later, I just realized one of the hinges on my glasses has no tension anymore. It just swings freely. What a strange coincidence.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using soap on surfaces that have an oleophobic coating can degrade the quality of the coating. This is even worse with dish soap.
How else do you get rid of grease? The scattering of light on grease on the lenses is unbearable for me whenever I don't use dish soap.
If the oleophobic coating is intact (and good quality) it should come off with just a clean cloth.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second this. Don’t use any kind of cloth. Just blow over your glasses a few times, droplets will disappear. Even finest cloth will leave scratches over time. Also it will reapply dirt and grease that naturally builds up as you use it
Instead of wiping with cloth, I use a hair dryer in cold setting.
That's bad. You don't want to dry it, you want to remove the water BEFORE it has a chance to dry out.
If you just dry it out, the mineral residue from water will be left on your glasses.
More than that, mineral crystals are incredibly abrasive so next time you try to clean the glasses they will be abrading and destroying your perfect glass surface.
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#159I worked in an optical lab some 20+ years ago to pay for college. Here's how I clean mine:
Fill a clean sink with warm, mildly soapy (dawn dish) water.
Let them soak in that for a few minutes.
Rinse them clean with fresh water.
Spray with lens cleaner (basically it's water with a touch of isopropyl alcohol), thoroughly.
Dry with an old cotton baby diaper. I've had a handful of these since my lab days. They're so freaking soft now, it's crazy.
Here's key: Never ever ever let your towel hit a counter. If you do, you'll scratch a lens. As author of the post writes, keep them in a bag. They come out of the bag, clean the glasses, they go back in the bag.
Inspect your glasses. Make sure screws are tight. Look at the nose pads, replace before they get funky. Seriously, they're touching your freaking face.
About every 6 months, I do the above, but I take them completely apart first. I'll spray the screws with alcohol and rub them back and forth on a towel to get the oils and such off. I'll clean the bezels where the lenses go. The nose pads fit in with screws. They insert into a cup and the screw goes through that way. I'll get a paper towel and make a point and twist it around in the cup to clean the oils out of there. Finally I'll wipe everything down as per above and reassemble.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A good chunk of people require glasses that need to be custom-made. Zenni makes their glasses to order; what do you mean?
As someone with fairly pronouced Astigmatism in the expensive glasses camp, I'd say: 1) The glasses have to accurately hold my the lens at a specific location and orientation relative to my eyes in order that they actually work. Off by a little bit and it's world of splitting headaches and crazy distortion Achieving that positioning, while dealing with my wonky ears, size of head, eye locations etc - requires knowled…
Have you considered maybe trying audiobooks instead? ))