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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 158871" data-attributes="member: 9521">Never EVER use compressed air....EVER!! You would do better by spitting on your finger and rubbing it around on the sensor. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit but not that much. Compressed air is a sure way of turning your camera into a speckled mess of oil and whatever other crap is inside the compressed air tank. As for wet cleaning, yes. They are very expensive but they are also not your average swabs and are 100% free of any lint particles or dust. I prefer using the V-Dust swabs because they're V-shaped and will not rub against the sides of your lens chamber and release small fibers from the cloth. As for cleaning liquid, I use Eclipse that runs about $6 for a lifetime supply. Granted, its 100% methanol and even though it's high quality methanol and probably contains about 4 cents, it's not that easy getting ahold of such quality methanol outside a lab setting and so a lifetime supply at $6 seems pretty reasonable to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 158871, member: 9521"] Never EVER use compressed air....EVER!! You would do better by spitting on your finger and rubbing it around on the sensor. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit but not that much. Compressed air is a sure way of turning your camera into a speckled mess of oil and whatever other crap is inside the compressed air tank. As for wet cleaning, yes. They are very expensive but they are also not your average swabs and are 100% free of any lint particles or dust. I prefer using the V-Dust swabs because they're V-shaped and will not rub against the sides of your lens chamber and release small fibers from the cloth. As for cleaning liquid, I use Eclipse that runs about $6 for a lifetime supply. Granted, its 100% methanol and even though it's high quality methanol and probably contains about 4 cents, it's not that easy getting ahold of such quality methanol outside a lab setting and so a lifetime supply at $6 seems pretty reasonable to me. [/QUOTE]

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