The internet is losing it.

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    Silicone spray…once a surface is contaminated with silicone there’s virtually nothing that can clean it off other than gasoline or similar molecules.

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      While gasoline is far more expensive than it used to be, it’s still pretty fucking cheap for a cleaning agent.

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        But you probably would not want that anywhere near a camera. Most lenses are plastic or have coatings or glues that turn hazy in contact with hydrocarbons. So its silicone hazy or crazed plastic haze. Pick your tick.

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          Eh… You’d be surprised at how trivial it is to make things impervious to such basic chemicals. This isn’t the 80s.

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          Most lenses are plastic

          No they’re not. Glass is optically far superior and not that much more expensive.