Posted by Tom Webster on February 15, 2007 at 3:55 AM
Hi y'all,
I wear eyeglasses and I'm always having problems with my glasses fogging up, not only on cold days but hot days, too. I've been looking for some way to eliminate the fogging. I tried a product called FOG [TECH] by MotoSolutions (www.motosolutions.com). It is a fast drying, crystal clear, thin coating that you apply to your glasses to prevent fogging.
My friends, this stuff works great! I've used it on hot days and cold days and, after applying a coating following the simple directions, my glasses haven't once. In hot weather I used to have to wipe my glasses almost every 15 secs to 1 minute. Not any more! Cold weather was the same problem and this stuff is rated to work down to -22°F.
One coating lasts about 4 to 5 days in cold weather and about 3 days in hot weather. After applying it to your lenses you cannot wipe the lenses without wiping off the coating. If you need to clean your glasses, the coating comes off in water. After cleaning just apply a new coating and you're good to go. If I just want cold weather or hot weather protection I just coat the inside surfaces of my glasses. If I anticipate going out in fog or mist I will coat both sides.
Here's another good use. I bought Canon's anti-fog eyepiece for my 1D MkII. Guess what? It is simply a clear eyepiece coated with a similar product. Canon gives you a little foam spatula and a special cloth to clean the eyepiece. If the coating wears off you have to send it to Canon repairs to be recoated. The anti-fog eyepiece cost me $39.95! Well, we can one-up Canon! Purchase a Canon 0-diopter eyepiece for $13.95 and coat it with FOG [TECH]. It will then be the same thing as Canon's anti-fog eyepiece for considerably less money. The best part is you won't have to send it back to Canon for recoating. You can do it yourself.
I purchased the FOG [TECH] over the Internet from REI. You can buy a package of 5, one time use wipes for $4.95 or you can purchase a 30ml bottle with applicators for 14.95. REI no longer shows it on their web site (it's probably a seasonal product) but I found that PaddlePro.com (www.paddlepro.com) carries both products. Do a search for "fog tech" on the PaddlePro web site. I highly suggest you buy the 30ml bottle because it is the most economical of the two products.
This is the next best thing to sliced bread! Enjoy, my friends!
Posted by Marko Trebušak on February 15, 2007 at 4:45 AM
Tom, it's great to hear that it works. I wes thinking about it for LF camera, and will think about it even harder when autumn comes again. It looks like ther will be no winter in Slovenia this time around !
BDW you shall correct your link.
Marko
Posted by Bill Chambers on February 15, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Thanks Tom. I wonder if you can use this on lenses as well. Here in Florida the humidity is a killer and my lenses will sometimes fog up as well as my eyepiece. I can wipe them but it 10 seconds they're fogged up again. Do they mention anything about lenses on the packaging?
Bill wrote: "I wonder if you can use this on lenses as well?"
That's a good question. I would hold off using the product on coated glass until your question is resolved.
Since I us a 4x5, it would great to have a way to prevent the ground glass from fogging up.
Thanks for the info, Tom!
-PB
Posted by Tom Webster on February 15, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Bill, I'm not sure I would trust coating my lenses with this. I don't know what effect it would have on the coatings. It has no effect on my plastic (OK, polycarbonate) eyeglasses. I would contact the manufacturer through their web site, first, before trying it out on a lens.
Preston, it will probably work just fine on a groundglass. Do be gentle when using a focusing loupe, however. The coating is very thin and easily scratched. Don't drag the loupe over the glass when viewing different parts of the image unless, just for the fun of it, you want to scratch your name in the coating and fog it up just to see your name written in fog!
Posted by Wayne Rhodus on February 15, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Thanks Tom, this definitely sounds worth trying out. I appreciate the heads up!
Posted by David Prichard on February 16, 2007 at 12:28 AM
I have my doubts about paddlepro. Their script wouldn't accept Canadian postal codes and when I wrote them directly the e-mail was returned as no address; undeliverable. They may be legit, but if they can't set up an e-commerce site, why am I buying there?
I'll let you know how it handles -40 later!
Dave
Posted by Tom Webster on February 16, 2007 at 9:55 AM
Thanks Dave. Paddlepro worked a couple of days ago. OK, I'll look for another distributor, too. I was trying to save y'all some money. Let me know how it works in -40°.
Discussion
7 repliesI wear eyeglasses and I'm always having problems with my glasses fogging up, not only on cold days but hot days, too. I've been looking for some way to eliminate the fogging. I tried a product called FOG [TECH] by MotoSolutions (www.motosolutions.com). It is a fast drying, crystal clear, thin coating that you apply to your glasses to prevent fogging.
My friends, this stuff works great! I've used it on hot days and cold days and, after applying a coating following the simple directions, my glasses haven't once. In hot weather I used to have to wipe my glasses almost every 15 secs to 1 minute. Not any more! Cold weather was the same problem and this stuff is rated to work down to -22°F.
One coating lasts about 4 to 5 days in cold weather and about 3 days in hot weather. After applying it to your lenses you cannot wipe the lenses without wiping off the coating. If you need to clean your glasses, the coating comes off in water. After cleaning just apply a new coating and you're good to go. If I just want cold weather or hot weather protection I just coat the inside surfaces of my glasses. If I anticipate going out in fog or mist I will coat both sides.
Here's another good use. I bought Canon's anti-fog eyepiece for my 1D MkII. Guess what? It is simply a clear eyepiece coated with a similar product. Canon gives you a little foam spatula and a special cloth to clean the eyepiece. If the coating wears off you have to send it to Canon repairs to be recoated. The anti-fog eyepiece cost me $39.95! Well, we can one-up Canon! Purchase a Canon 0-diopter eyepiece for $13.95 and coat it with FOG [TECH]. It will then be the same thing as Canon's anti-fog eyepiece for considerably less money. The best part is you won't have to send it back to Canon for recoating. You can do it yourself.
I purchased the FOG [TECH] over the Internet from REI. You can buy a package of 5, one time use wipes for $4.95 or you can purchase a 30ml bottle with applicators for 14.95. REI no longer shows it on their web site (it's probably a seasonal product) but I found that PaddlePro.com (www.paddlepro.com) carries both products. Do a search for "fog tech" on the PaddlePro web site. I highly suggest you buy the 30ml bottle because it is the most economical of the two products.
This is the next best thing to sliced bread! Enjoy, my friends!
BDW you shall correct your link.
Marko
That's a good question. I would hold off using the product on coated glass until your question is resolved.
Since I us a 4x5, it would great to have a way to prevent the ground glass from fogging up.
Thanks for the info, Tom!
-PB
Preston, it will probably work just fine on a groundglass. Do be gentle when using a focusing loupe, however. The coating is very thin and easily scratched. Don't drag the loupe over the glass when viewing different parts of the image unless, just for the fun of it, you want to scratch your name in the coating and fog it up just to see your name written in fog!
http://www.fogtech.ca/home.htm
I have my doubts about paddlepro. Their script wouldn't accept Canadian postal codes and when I wrote them directly the e-mail was returned as no address; undeliverable. They may be legit, but if they can't set up an e-commerce site, why am I buying there?
I'll let you know how it handles -40 later!
Dave