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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 363120" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>You will need to think about tools and materials for cleaning the sensor. With film cameras, the film is your sensor, and you get a new, clean sensor with every shot. Not so with digital. Dust will accumulate on your sensor, and you'll need to clean it off.</p><p></p><p> Different people will probably have different ideas of what products you should have in this category, but here's my list…</p><p></p><p> First, the large-sized <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00017LSPI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00" target="_blank">Giottos Rocket blower</a>. Accept no substitutes. This blower has a special valve to pull air in the back, so you aren't just sucking dust into it and blowing it back out on the same surface you were trying to clean.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]116405[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p> Second, for slightly more stubborn dust, you need <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LQQQZQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00" target="_blank">this brush</a>. Using your Giottos blower to blow air through it cleans off any previous dust, and creates a static electricity charge that causes it to attract and hold dust from your sensor.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]116406[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p> And once in a great while, you're going to have crud on the sensor that neither of the previous methods will get. For that, you need a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PNGM18/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00" target="_blank">wet-cleaning kit</a>.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]116407[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 363120, member: 16749"] You will need to think about tools and materials for cleaning the sensor. With film cameras, the film is your sensor, and you get a new, clean sensor with every shot. Not so with digital. Dust will accumulate on your sensor, and you'll need to clean it off. Different people will probably have different ideas of what products you should have in this category, but here's my list… First, the large-sized [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00017LSPI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00"]Giottos Rocket blower[/URL]. Accept no substitutes. This blower has a special valve to pull air in the back, so you aren't just sucking dust into it and blowing it back out on the same surface you were trying to clean. [ATTACH=CONFIG]116405._xfImport[/ATTACH] Second, for slightly more stubborn dust, you need [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LQQQZQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00"]this brush[/URL]. Using your Giottos blower to blow air through it cleans off any previous dust, and creates a static electricity charge that causes it to attract and hold dust from your sensor. [ATTACH=CONFIG]116406._xfImport[/ATTACH] And once in a great while, you're going to have crud on the sensor that neither of the previous methods will get. For that, you need a [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PNGM18/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00"]wet-cleaning kit[/URL]. [ATTACH=CONFIG]116407._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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