phone handling and the camera lenses

[Frostypawz]

What do you do to keep your phones camera lenses clean. Even if you tend to have clean hands,finger oils can smudge them as you handle the phone throughout the day. I find it strange that no case manufacturers have addressed this issue also with some sort of slide away cover for the lens areas.

Phone makers continue to put better and better cameras in our phones but seem to have missed thinking about lens protection. Why don't they build a protective spring loaded shutter into the body of the phone? This seems like such an overlooked idea as just about every imaginable feature has been thought of or tried on smart phones. Most all compact digital cameras have this feature not only for smudge but also scratch protection.

So what do you do to keep your S3s lenses clean. Do you carry a cloth,use your shirt tail,etc.? Also,have I missed an available case for the phone with movable lens cover? They say the best camera is the one you have with you. But even the best phone camera technology isn't going to see through a smudged greasy lens or "transparent" lens covering.

 

[rcsrich]

What do you do to keep your phones camera lenses clean. Even if you tend to have clean hands,finger oils can smudge them as you handle the phone throughout the day. I find it strange that no case manufacturers have addressed this issue also with some sort of slide away cover for the lens areas.

Phone makers continue to put better and better cameras in our phones but seem to have missed thinking about lens protection. Why don't they build a protective spring loaded shutter into the body of the phone? This seems like such an overlooked idea as just about every imaginable feature has been thought of or tried on smart phones. Most all compact digital cameras have this feature not only for smudge but also scratch protection.

So what do you do to keep your S3s lenses clean. Do you carry a cloth,use your shirt tail,etc.? Also,have I missed an available case for the phone with movable lens cover? They say the best camera is the one you have with you. But even the best phone camera technology isn't going to see through a smudged greasy lens or "transparent" lens covering.

Some of the more robust cases "Otterbox, Acase...) recess the outer protective lens far enough that it does a pretty good job of keeping your greasy paws from smudging it up. In my experience, the outer protective lens has to be pretty grubby for it to really affect picture taking )grease is one thing, dirt is a different matter).