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W810 protector of the camera lens |
shaliron
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I thought you meant the active lens cover  It's just that most people here refer to it as that, including myself. I refer to the glass protector part, as the glass lens cover, or something to that effect to make it clear.
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max_wedge
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I feel strange calling the plastic see-through bit "glass lense cover", and if it's called "plastic lense cover" it could be confused with the active lense cover which in the W800 is plastic. So then we'd have to say "see-through plastic lense cover", which by now is a bit of a mouthful. 
"Lense Covers" are generally removable or retractable devices. The see-through plastic lense cover (phew!) is fixed. It has an anti-glare coating, and it's role is to prevent sensor saturation in bright conditions, so perhaps "Lense Protector" is also the wrong term.
Technically speaking, The see-through plastic lense cover is really an anti-glare filter.
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xan K
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Is the anti-glare coating on the exterior or interior side of the fixed-cover? It seemed to me that it was on the outside part on my former w810. If it's like that, that's what caused the little streaks on the fixed-cover, the coating easily coming off even after only cleaning it with a soft cotton cloth.
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max_wedge
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it has to be on the outside to reflect the glare. Like any lense, you shouldn't touch it with anything but a dust free lense cleaning cloth. Cotton's not that soft, and if it's part of your clothing you are using that's even worse - lot's of fine dust particles trapped in the fabric.
But I think you'll find, that if you have to clean it a lot there must be lot's of dust getting on to it, and when you clean it this dust scratches the surface.
If that's the case you should get a little hand held blower to blast the dust of the lense before wiping it with the cloth.
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marlonski
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Have to agree with maxyboy here, I posted a similar answer here I would recommend popping to your local camera store a picking up a lens cloth. I have a micro fibre cloth which works great.
By the way in the link to the other thread is worth a look just to read the post from 'stayback' !!
Each to there own but I wouldn't recommend his approach
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max_wedge
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that's a hoot. Yup, just scratch that pesky anti-glare coating right off. And while you're at it, give it a nice frosted "soft focus" affect, lovely!
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marlonski
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On 2006-08-24 16:20:45, max_wedge wrote:
that's a hoot. Yup, just scratch that pesky anti-glare coating right off. And while you're at it, give it a nice frosted "soft focus" affect, lovely!
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LOL !!
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abbafan1972
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Regarding cleaning cloths, I generally the small cloths you get with a pair of spectacles.
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Posted: 2006-08-23 09:28
