Weird story but I am very curious, yet a tad worried.
I have a 56mm f1.6 Sigma lens, amazing lens btw.
I left it attached to my Panasonic G85/G80 overnight and for whatever reason this morning I woke up to find a lot of dust on the glass part of the lens. I tried to wipe it off, but couldn't remove all the dust particles. Hence, I decided to do something clever, only to find out how STUPID of an idea this was. I took some sello tape (transparent adhesive tape, aka 'scotch' in some countries) and decided to use it to pick the dust particles that I could not simply wipe off. BUT what happened instead was that the sello tape stuck to the glass lens and it was very hard to remove. After a bit of force I managed to pull the tape off the lens, but it left a very bad sticky adhesive on the glass.
I tried to wipe it off real hard with tissue paper, with microfibre cloth and anything I possibly could use but nothing much happened. SO I decided to resort to the last option, I used a wet wipe (I have plenty of antibacterial wipes around me these months) to rub of the adhesive from the camera lens and okay, I think I managed to remove the it finally.
However, I have a few worries, as I have no idea how lenses are constructed, I only know how to use them;
1) how strongly fitted is the glass in the lens? I mean, I have been pulling it (when removing the sello tape, it was stuck very strongly) and then I have been pushing it (when I was rubbing it pretty hard using the cloth to remove the excess adhesive) quite a lot. Any chance I could have damaged or weakened something by manhandling the lens glass like so?
2) the wet wipe I used: my understanding is that liquid and cameras are a no no.. but I had no other way to remove the adhesive.. The wipe was pretty wet and the liquid has all sorts of chemicals to make it antibacterial, what are the chances that the liquid entered the lens through the sides of the glass?
I might be being a bit OCD about this all situation, but it's only so because it's my first 'expensive' lens for my budget and I really love it. Having it bought it from amazon, I yet have 30 days to return it and get a new one if anything has gone wrong during this process. I appreciate every comment or suggestions you guys have to make, anything helps.
I have a 56mm f1.6 Sigma lens, amazing lens btw.
I left it attached to my Panasonic G85/G80 overnight and for whatever reason this morning I woke up to find a lot of dust on the glass part of the lens. I tried to wipe it off, but couldn't remove all the dust particles. Hence, I decided to do something clever, only to find out how STUPID of an idea this was. I took some sello tape (transparent adhesive tape, aka 'scotch' in some countries) and decided to use it to pick the dust particles that I could not simply wipe off. BUT what happened instead was that the sello tape stuck to the glass lens and it was very hard to remove. After a bit of force I managed to pull the tape off the lens, but it left a very bad sticky adhesive on the glass.
I tried to wipe it off real hard with tissue paper, with microfibre cloth and anything I possibly could use but nothing much happened. SO I decided to resort to the last option, I used a wet wipe (I have plenty of antibacterial wipes around me these months) to rub of the adhesive from the camera lens and okay, I think I managed to remove the it finally.
However, I have a few worries, as I have no idea how lenses are constructed, I only know how to use them;
1) how strongly fitted is the glass in the lens? I mean, I have been pulling it (when removing the sello tape, it was stuck very strongly) and then I have been pushing it (when I was rubbing it pretty hard using the cloth to remove the excess adhesive) quite a lot. Any chance I could have damaged or weakened something by manhandling the lens glass like so?
2) the wet wipe I used: my understanding is that liquid and cameras are a no no.. but I had no other way to remove the adhesive.. The wipe was pretty wet and the liquid has all sorts of chemicals to make it antibacterial, what are the chances that the liquid entered the lens through the sides of the glass?
I might be being a bit OCD about this all situation, but it's only so because it's my first 'expensive' lens for my budget and I really love it. Having it bought it from amazon, I yet have 30 days to return it and get a new one if anything has gone wrong during this process. I appreciate every comment or suggestions you guys have to make, anything helps.