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minus-squarespankysalmon@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoWhile gasoline is far more expensive than it used to be, it’s still pretty fucking cheap for a cleaning agent.
minus-squarealtphoto@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoBut 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.
minus-squarespankysalmon@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoEh… You’d be surprised at how trivial it is to make things impervious to such basic chemicals. This isn’t the 80s.
minus-squareFallibilist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days ago Most lenses are plastic No they’re not. Glass is optically far superior and not that much more expensive.
While gasoline is far more expensive than it used to be, it’s still pretty fucking cheap for a cleaning agent.
and as an accelerant…
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.
Eh… You’d be surprised at how trivial it is to make things impervious to such basic chemicals. This isn’t the 80s.
No they’re not. Glass is optically far superior and not that much more expensive.