Camera & lens cleaning kits

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Which are the best cleaning kits for the camera (viewfinder, mirror etc) & lenses?

Looking for the best - not cheapest. ;)
 
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Horoscope Fish

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Gorf said:
Which are the best cleaning kits for the camera (viewfinder, mirror etc) & lenses?

Looking for the best - not cheapest.
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The "best" cleaning kit, I think, is the one you put together yourself.

I do a lot of hiking in the desert and back-country hot and dry southern California, so I know camera cleaning... Jeez, do I ever. My preferred tools include a 2 1/2" synthetic-bristle paint brush (for knocking big chunks of dust and crud off the camera/lens body), baby wipes (for general wiping down) a Giottos Rocket Blower (medium), what my girlfriend tells me (and Amazon agrees it seems) is a "large powder brush" (for removing dust/sand/grit from front-lens elements and filters) and a microfiber towel I got from the auto-parts store. With those, I'm pretty much covered.

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Lawrence

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What a well timed question. Seems I have been bad at this aspect - even though I thought I was doing all right. My sensor has dust bunnies living on it and I have ordered a sensor cleaning kit which sounds comprehensive.
Hang on I'll see if I can find the site.
Camera Check Point services for photographersI am not suggesting you buy from there but there is some good information and I will send you a PM for a Cleaning PDF which i think is very good.
 
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Lawrence

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RON said:
Yes, thanks for the info Lawrence. But a friend of mine says that dust bunnies need a place to live also.
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Well there is the solution to all's problems.
Your friend can build a 'dust bunny" hutch and house all the dust bunnies in the world. I believe they cost nothing to feed.
 
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RON_RIP

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Yes, but then my friend would have to round up all her dust bunnies and heard them into the hutch and that would be just too much work. She has a very live and let live attitude toward them. at least she does not give them names, or i would begin to worry.
 
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FastGlass

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RON said:
Yes, but then my friend would have to round up all her dust bunnies and heard them into the hutch and that would be just too much work. She has a very live and let live attitude toward them. at least she does not give them names, or i would begin to worry.
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Wondering if our wives know each other?
 
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RON_RIP

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They don't have to. Their is this whole underground sisterhood kind of thinge going on out there. And you do not want to cross it.
 
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gqtuazon

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Gorf said:
Which are the best cleaning kits for the camera (viewfinder, mirror etc) & lenses?

Looking for the best - not cheapest. ;)
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I am happy with this Zeiss cleaning kit that I purchased from walmart optometry office.

$5.00

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Rick M

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Gorf said:
Thanks Rick

Does no-one have a Nikon kit?
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I wouldn't get too hung up on Nikon branded accessories, they are not necessarily the best. Even Zeiss for that matter, most of it is the same stuff re-branded. Most "kits" aren't necessarily full of the best stuff.
 
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