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[carol]

 oh my gosh. My fuji finepix A205 was what i thought destroyed when husband and son took it to a car show, then lens was scratched and hazy.
But tried the toothpaste tip. and wow!!! my next pic was clear as a bell thank you so much for your advice...

[Don]

 Just wondering if this toothpaste polishing would work on glass lenses also. I have an old Hasselblad that is fairly scratchy and has kind of haze on the inside as well as fine scratches on the front element.

[Glenn Middleton]

 If you want to try and polish glass lenses, find a company who supplies grinding and polishing compounds to those people who grind/polish their own telescope optics/mirrors. In most cases you will remove all the coating and this may be more detrimental

[zeb]

 My friend brought her 3 and 5-year-old kids for a visit.  Just got the inexpensive Timex watch that was borrowed mysteriously back with scratches in it.  They were a bit to deep for the toothpaste so I used some 600 grit automotive wet sandpaper and a li

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what is the Toothpaste tip that you used?
Want to Know about it?Cause I have used a digital cameral that has a scratch on my lense, but there is a coating one it. I try to find a store that can repair it. Can anyone tell me where it is and how much w

[Chekawa]

cigarette ash can be used as a polishing aid. Click Service & Maintenance on top page then Fungus On Lenses from link below
 
Found here: ?www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B58B9?Open

[Chekawa]

Ok, I tried the cigarette ash and it takes forever. However for those who have the interest out their, I now use a Nikon lens pen tip with the ash to polish and the results are super fine polish. It will take very, very fine cleaning marks out of th

[Adrian_bastin]

For heaven's sake don't do any of this above. A scratch, if it is not picking up a lot of light and passing it into the camera, is only affecting the area of glass that it occupies - the rest of the surface is still working fine. If a surface alte

[Wernerjb]

Sometimes the method indicated in the link by Chekawa works, sometimes it does not, but it usually is not the cigarette ash that scratches the lens instead of polishing it, but any cotton cloth, even if it is a much used cotton handkercief. That s

[Robertofollia]

How about the microfiber polishing cloth that Zeiss provides? I removed (with the fluid's aid) the really really big fungus inside a summicron lens, so big that you could not see through

[Lacyt]

How about the eyeglass repair stuff, Liquid Lense?  It claims it won't alter the prescription of eyeglasses.  Anyone tried ti?