How often do you clean your camera lenses?

[TheSuperServer]

How often do you clean your camera lenses and what do you clean them with?

 

[bigredfish]

Once a month on average unless we get a nasty storm with wind that throws a bunch of junk at them. Usually a simply moist paper towel...after first swiping with a clean tissue to make sure no sand granules get scraped across the glass...

 

[zero-degrees]

Never do really. All cameras are mounted under soffit and I don't have any issues. A few times a year I have to grab the duster on the extension pole to clean up a few spider webs, but that's it.

 

[Shockwave199]

I got lazy and hadn't done it in five months or so. It's one of the best things to do to regain the great picture a camera gave you initially. No matter how protected you think your camera is, the lens always gets dirty. Well worth cleaning them.

 

[Xeddog]

If you mean actually getting a cleaning solutions and cloths to clean off the lenses, never. If you mean sweeping cobwebs, that seems like a twice a day chore lately.

Wayne

 

[GFM]

Yea those spiders... Always a web somewhere close to the camera lens that causes erronious triggering. I try to sweep around the front of the cameras every evening. Don't really ever actually clean the lenses though, they seem to stay clean.

 

[Parley]

I have not had to clean any of mine except for an occasional spider web. I only have bullets, turrets and 4 Huisun PTZ V1 camras.

 

[Shockwave199]

Trust me, even when you think all is fine the glass is dirty. Every so often clean 'em. It can clean the image right up.

 

[DavidDavid]

Ive got one 5231 Starlight on the side of my barn completely exposed to all the elements, sun 24/7 and rain. I'm amazed at how the picture is always good. Sometimes when it rains i Wil see a few drops on the lens, but that clears up quickly. Maybe it is dirty and i just don't know it... But it seems good. Been up for 3 months now. My old Hosafe bullet that was in that location was always good too.

 

[CaliGirl]

I didn't clean mine for 6 months as they were not accessible through winter. The constant rain and snow kept them pretty clean. Then I noticed my 30x didnt have fine details when zoomed. I cleaned it and what a difference it really made like @Shockwave199 said. You dont notice the difference until you clean it.

I put a thin layer of vaseline around my camera housing near the front and that had substantially lowered the number of spider and spider webs in my camera view.

 

[TheSuperServer]

My 5231's under my eves have been staying super clean. I just cleaned both my PTZ lenses and it's like night and day with the night clarity.