Amos Brooks wrote:

> Hi,
>     You ask why one should clean the lenses. My emphatic answer would be
>BACTERIA.
> If you dont clean off the lens then mother nature will do it for you, and her
> cleaning agents to us look like contaminants.
> Amos Brooks

    What bacteria live in immersion oil? Are they documented to damage
lenses? This is
a new one on me. Fungus can definitely attack camera lens surfaces but I
haven't heard
of such things happening to microscope objectives (due to small surface
area or ??).

Geoff
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