iplusmile Lens Cleaning Paper Tissue: 100 sheets Camera Lenses Wipes Paper Electronic Screens Cleaning Cloth for Microscope,Precision Optics,10 × 15 cm

Very soft. Useful.

The pack of lens cleaning tissues/paper arrived in an appropriately sized self-stick plastic pouch, the papers themselves are bound into two separate booklets with a generic cover that identifies them and keeps them flat and contaminants off the paper. They’re far from a new thing and anyone who’s been around for a while in the photography world has probably seen these before.Using them is simple enough, you just flip open the little booklet and rip the ‘pages’ out one by one as needed. They’re generally okay, and they’re well enough made. Used dry they are pretty sturdy and hold up well without depositing any fibres or pieces onto the surface of the item. However, using them with a solvent is problematic, and they slowly disintegrate and leave little bits behind when used with a standard lens fluid and even isopropyl alcohol. This means you end up using additional papers to finish the job off and remove the bits left behind by the prior paper, which isn’t ideal. Despite the hassle they do eventually leave you with a clean and streak free surface.I’d happily keep a booklet of these in my camera bag as a backup for the times when I may have forgotten, misplaced or contaminated my usual microfibre cloth from a dropping it or something. But I can’t say I'd replace all of my reusable microfibres with these and make them my primary cleaning solution, can they be handy in a pinch? Absolutely, but they’re nowhere near as convenient or effective as even a cheap freebie microfibre cloth that comes with most camera gear.The £4.31 price on these is also very expensive for just 100 pieces, a long-standing alternative on Amazon has been selling these exact wipes in 550 and 800 pack sets that cost between 7 and 9 quid, and that those come in the same 50 piece booklets alongside a few microfibre cloths. For £4.31 I'd expect to be getting closer to 300–400 pieces which would make them a fair bit more appealing.Ultimately they’re nothing special and unless you want to keep a set as backups in your bag or use them for a specific application they’re not really worth the hassle.

I tend to have small microfibre clothes in my camera bag to get smudges off my lenses, but they tend to pick up bits of lint in my bag and I worry that I might end up scratching a lens. I did startrt keeping them in a plastic container but they were a bit of a faff then. These paper wipes are brilliant as the 'book' of wipes keeps each piece of paper nice and clean and you simply tear one off to use.The book takes up hardly any space in a bag and adds almost no weight, the size of each piece is big enough to hold in your hand and cover the length of your fingers as you wipe the surface of a lens. These really are brilliant and I now consider them a kit essential!