Sensor cleaner for a nikon camera

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Dawg Pics

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A fan that pulls dust out. Interesting. I wonder if it actually works, but the cheap me wants to dig up a computer fan and make one. Naw, I will never do it.
 
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480sparky

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Dawg Pics said:
A fan that pulls dust out. Interesting. I wonder if it actually works, but the cheap me wants to dig up a computer fan and make one. Naw, I will never do it.
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It might work if used in a clean room, and the fan is ducted outside of it.
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SteveL54

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What is an "eclectic fan"
I work in a company the designs and manufactures small electric motors. Never heard this term.

Blows air INTO the camera?

"Censor clean" ???
 
Dawg Pics

Dawg Pics

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480sparky said:
It might work if used in a clean room, and the fan is ducted outside of it.
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In my house, I would have to build a sterile plastic bubble. We have 4 dawgs with a back yard where the grass can't set root. We have to change our AC filters every month.

I was also wondering about blowing air into the camera. This makes no sense.
 
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480sparky

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Dawg Pics said:
........I was also wondering about blowing air into the camera. This makes no sense.
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Yeah, they fail to mention that you're not only pulling air OUT of the camera (presumably dust-laden air at that), but you're also sucking ordinary dust-laden air IN to the camera at the same time. I wouldn't really call this a camera cleaner.... I'd call it a Dust Replacement and Rearranging System.
 
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Dawg Pics

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480sparky said:
... I'd call it a Dust Replacement and Rearranging System.
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Agreed.
I thought they mentioned replacing the air in the camera with pure air. I was thinking "Huh?"

Am I understanding this correctly?
It is basically a ventilation system not a true vacuum, and it is causing air turbulence in the camera, which is possibly dislodging more dust that can land the sensor and mirror. It is also pulling dusty air through the center part that has no filter, yes?
 
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pforsell

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According to the images the fan inside the gizmo blows the "dirty" air out of the camera through the central aperture. The replacement air gets into the camera through the "donut shaped" filters around the central "output" hole.

In principle, it could work.

In practice... well not so much. The fan is blowing air out of the camera (presumably all the dust too) but since it is only sucking air out of the camera the pressure difference cannot exceed one atmosphere even in theory.

If the gizmo would pre-clean the air though filters, and after that really blow a stream of clean air into the camera, and then suck the dusty air out of the camera, the effect could be something useful. That would require a gizmo with at least two fans/blowers instead of just one.

Verdict: the apparatus is not worth even testing. It is a bag of hot (or lukewarm) air. :cool:
 
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Marcel

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It looks like a SCAM.

Just forget you ever saw that thing.

Dust particles that are stuck to the sensor and won't go away with a few shots of Rocket blower (read gentle compressed air spray), need to be taken out with a sensor cleaning swab.

I rest my case. :)

 
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480sparky

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pforsell said:
According to the images the fan inside the gizmo blows the "dirty" air out of the camera through the central aperture. The replacement air gets into the camera through the "donut shaped" filters around the central "output" hole.

In principle, it could work.

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In short, it pumps the dust from the camera directly into the filter............
 
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