Use These Tips to Protect Your Camera Lens

As a photographer you invest in a number of devices and equipment to get optimum results from your work. In addition to the camera that you carry around for photo sessions, you may also have more than one lens to take a variety of photographs. These are expensive and need to be taken care of.

Professional and experienced photographers at photo studios London can give you tips on not just the best ways to capture a picture but also the procedures to handle the camera and lens especially while travelling.

Here are some tips that you may use in this regard:

Wherever you carry your camera, always try to keep it and the lens close to your body. Hanging it loosely from the neck in front is not a good way to carry such fragile equipment.

• Be careful when you change the lens. It gets subjected to dust and finger marks particularly when you change it. The environment of a photo studio for hire London is taken special care of to avoid any dust in the area. However, it is good to ensure that your hands are also clean while removing and fixing a lens.
• Use a soft micro fibre cloth to clean the lens. Using any rough fabric will only damage it.
• Remember to cover the front and rear parts of the lens with caps when you place them in your bag. This helps to protect the lenses from dust and other tiny particles.
• Also use a UV filter to safeguard the lens against scratches and dust. The filter can become the perfect protection for the front of your lens.
• As a professional photographer or a student of photography, you should have a camera bag of right size and make to keep your photography equipment. Ensure that you do not keep more than one lens in one compartment. If you do, you may end up damaging one or both of them.
• Ensure that the camera bag you use is ‘water-proof’ and not merely ‘water-resistant’. Even when you try to capture pictures in rain, stand in a shady area where rain drops do not spoil your lens.

This brings us to 2 more tips directed at protecting camera lens from fog and mist

• If you go for outdoor photography in foggy or misty weather, take out your camera only when you are ready to take the picture. Exposing the camera to weather all the time will create misty marks on the equipment – this will spoil your picture and create a thin film on the lens making it necessary for you to clean it again and again.
• In misty conditions, avoid using a cloth to wipe the lens. It is better to use a blower to make it dry. You can also ask professionals at a photo studio for more recommendations on cleaning methods.

In addition to offering services as a London photo studio rental, Simulacra Studio also helps new photographers learn the nuances of this art and the ways to keep their photography equipment in best of conditions. For any help on photography, contact Simulacra Studio staff at +442077331979

Author Bio: Founded in 2006 by Photographer Francois Boutemy and Designer Chris Charalambous, Simulacra Studio has worked with a number of high calibre clients for more than a decade. It also organises workshops and artistic development courses to give budding photographers the best of growth opportunities in the industry. For more information on the studio and trainings imparted visit https://www.simulacrastudio.com/

Michael harley is a writer at Search Engine.