| Knowing how to wash a camera lens is a top | | | | replace the front and rear lens caps immediately, |
| priority. Just a little bit of dust or dirt on your | | | | to prevent knocks and scratches and keep dust |
| optics could cause all sorts of issues. | | | | down the optics. |
| A good quality soft brush or air blower is ideal. | | | | It can prevent flare spoiling your pictures, but also |
| Clean all of lens constantly, ensuring that the | | | | protect the front element against impact damage. |
| external moving parts are free from dust and | | | | If you plan to shoot outdoors in wind and rain, get |
| mud, particularly sand which may cause lots of | | | | a purpose-built rain cover. be wary of rushing |
| Problems and scratches. | | | | straight out of the cold into a warm place, as it |
| A handy addition to your kit is a microfibre towel | | | | could cause the internal lens elements to mist. Try |
| - essentially a super prime quality duster. It's | | | | and slowly acclimatize your kit; at the least open |
| excellent for wiping moisture and muck off your | | | | your camera bag, and keep it away from heat |
| kit and if you sling it over the top of your lens it | | | | sources. |
| can even keep your gear dry in light rain. Bike and | | | | It's best to invest in a screw-in skylight filter for |
| car photographers regularly throw a chamois | | | | every one of your lenses. They're much cheaper |
| leather over camera and lens to protect them | | | | to replace than a complete lens if you incidentally |
| from flying mud. | | | | scratch it. |
| When you take a lens off your camera always | | | | |