Lenspen is great. I use both a lenspen and a sensorklear to clean my sensors. Lenspens have large (and efficient) heads, but can't get into the corners of the sensor. The Sensorklear has a triangular shaped head that gets those hard to reach spots.
I still use PecPads and Eclipse now and again, but not nearly as often as I used to.
Also, it's Lenspens are far more travel friendly than Eclipse fluid.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the static charged brushes. Lenspens are far more reasonably priced, and far better at getting tough to remove crap off of a sensor.
Posts: 576 | Location: San Francisco | Registered: 18 July 2004
can you please give a bit more info on the "lens pen" ?
I purchased a couple of years ago this thing called a SpeckGRABBER which is a Pen like thinggy and it was a terrible experience - left crap all over the sensor filter.
Posts: 2144 | Location: Chicago | Registered: 21 January 2001
Good tip for reducing dust. Put double stick tape on the insides of your rear lens & body caps, acts as a dust trap. Also when you pull a body cap and a rear lens cap put them together in the case, that way they won't PU dust in the case to later drop onto the internal lens/ sensor areas.
Another thing I do is to change lenses with the body facing downward. If there is any dust around it may actually fall out of the camera instead of onto the sensor.
I know it's a silly thing that may only work one time in ten but that's one time I won't have to clean my sensor!
Best to all, RB
Posts: 424 | Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA | Registered: 24 October 2000
I'll buy that. If you've ever looked at a shaft of sunlight coming through a window and seen all the dust particulate floating down, turning the camera body face down while changing lenses seems like a pretty good idea.
Scotti
Posts: 2606 | Location: Los Angeles, California USA | Registered: 14 January 2001
Originally posted by RBecker: [qb] Another thing I do is to change lenses with the body facing downward. If there is any dust around it may actually fall out of the camera instead of onto the sensor.
I know it's a silly thing that may only work one time in ten but that's one time I won't have to clean my sensor!
Best to all, RB [/qb]
But depending where you are. If you're on a beach then often the fine sand is blowing up from around your feet.
Cheers Mike
Posts: 210 | Location: London | Registered: 06 October 2005
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