My local camera dealer has a display of ROR lens cleaner on his counter. Is this a good product? Does it work well? Thanks, Don

-- Donald A. Wansor (wansor@optonline.net), November 15, 2001

Answers

Unfamiliar with that produc but in the Leica Lens Book Bower says don't use anything but plain water.

cheers.

-- Don (wgpinc@yahoo.com), November 15, 2001.

Unfamiliar with that product but in the Leica Lens Book Bower says don't use anything but plain water.

cheers.

-- Don (wgpinc@yahoo.com), November 15, 2001.

This stuff is even better than ROR:

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-- Rolfe Tessem (rolfe@ldp.com), November 15, 2001.

I've used ROR for years, and it works fine. Just a drop on a piece of lens cleaning tissue is sufficient, and then finish the job with one of those microfiber cleaning cloths. Had to do this with a Noctilux this morning after getting a beer thrown at me at a show last night, and it's good as new. The marketing copy about it adding a stop or of light transmission is overblown---it just does a good job of cleaning the glass, without nuking the coatings.

-- Chuck Albertson (chucko@siteconnect.com), November 15, 2001.

Great *GREAT* product! I threw my Kodak solution out after I bought the ROR - the Kodak stuff never worked anyway. I may be the only one on this forum that gets a build-up of oily residue on my filters, but when that happens ROR pulls it off in a jiff, no smears. I rarely use it on my lenses, as they rarely get junk on them, but I do recall one time when a glob of hamburger grease landed squarely on my front element... I carefully dabbed the bulk of it off with a napkin (yeah, I know - a no-no...), misted a bit of ROR on the lens and wiped with a micro-fiber cloth - twice. The result was a sparkling clean lens, no smears, no residue and no scratches! It also works like a champ on my sunglasses. BTW, I still have over half the solution left in the first bottle I bought five years ago!

Cheers,

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), November 15, 2001.

I've used ROR for several years and I like it. I use it on my eyeglasses and other optical glass also. A whiff tells you it contains some ammonia, which is a better grease-cutter than alcohol alone, which in turn is better than plain water. ROR's main advantage is in removing oily deposits--like fingerprints--hence the name Residual Oil Remover.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), November 15, 2001.

Thanks guys for the reponses about ROR. It's great to know that one can get truthful info. from the luggers. Regards, Don

-- Donald A. Wansor (wansor@optonline.net), November 15, 2001.

ROR website

-- Lucien (Lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), November 16, 2001.