(noun) - A vanitas painting was a particular type of still life immensely popular in the Netherlands (and Paris, to a lesser extent), beginning in the 17th century.The phrase comes to us courtesy of a Biblical passage in Ecclesiastes, in which the Hebrew word hevel was incorrectly taken to mean vanity of vanities. vanitas painting, while possibly containing lovely objects, always included some reference to man's mortality-most often a human skull (with or without other bones), but also by way of burning candles, soap bubbles or decaying flowers.
Turn the camera off and remove the cap that covers the lens mount on the front of the camera. Remove the cap that covers the back of the lens. Hold the lens in front of the camera so that the little white dot on the lens aligns with the matching dot on the camera body.
1 Wipe gently with the microfiber cloth. 2  If you cannot clean the lens adequately with the brush and a microfiber cloth, try using a few drops of lens cleaning fluid, which should be available from a camera store. 3  Always place the fluid on the cloth, rather than directly on the lens. Gently brush the dust from the middle of the lens to the edges. 2  Then dislodge the dust from the edges by holding the camera upside down with the lens glass pointing toward the ground, allowing the dust to fall toward the ground as you brush. 3  Be sure to use a brush with soft bristles.