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Do you clean your camera sensors yourself?
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<blockquote data-quote="editorial_use_only" data-source="post: 665143" data-attributes="member: 40895"><p>It depends. If what you are dealing with is welded on dirt then a blower won't help. That happens to me often, so often that I consider the blower a "will I get lucky" option. But it's also the easiest, simplest, quickest to try and it's basically costless. Get a good one, I like the Giotto big one. I had a freebie little bulb that was as useless as you describe, and the Giotto does seem to work better for me. There's also a bit of technique to using the blower. I find best results are from holding the camera mount-side down, then blowing up into the open box. Use your loupe to identify <em>exactly </em>where the debris is and try to blow at angles across it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, for years I had great results with Eclipse and the Photo Solutions swabs. So just a heads up, I think it was also mentioned above. From B&H etc, you apparently cannot get Eclipse fluid shipped anymore. I tried Aeroclipse and their new swabs as a substitute and could not get a smear free sensor. I switched to the Dust Patrol gamma fluid and their swabs and have had good success with that combo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="editorial_use_only, post: 665143, member: 40895"] It depends. If what you are dealing with is welded on dirt then a blower won't help. That happens to me often, so often that I consider the blower a "will I get lucky" option. But it's also the easiest, simplest, quickest to try and it's basically costless. Get a good one, I like the Giotto big one. I had a freebie little bulb that was as useless as you describe, and the Giotto does seem to work better for me. There's also a bit of technique to using the blower. I find best results are from holding the camera mount-side down, then blowing up into the open box. Use your loupe to identify [I]exactly [/I]where the debris is and try to blow at angles across it. Yes, for years I had great results with Eclipse and the Photo Solutions swabs. So just a heads up, I think it was also mentioned above. From B&H etc, you apparently cannot get Eclipse fluid shipped anymore. I tried Aeroclipse and their new swabs as a substitute and could not get a smear free sensor. I switched to the Dust Patrol gamma fluid and their swabs and have had good success with that combo. [/QUOTE]
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