Visible Dust Swabs

Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?

gowanoh wrote:
Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?


No, but I've used pec pads with high purity isoprpoyl alcohol on a
home-made plastic "wand".
It has worked extremely well, easy to do, and for a total cost of only a
few dollars I've got enough pads and fluid to last several lifetimes, or
perhaps even to set up a commercial sensor cleaning service.

On Aug 9, 9:40 am, "gowanoh" wrote:
Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?

I use them.
Excellent for wet cleaning which most new cameras need to have done.
Otherwise I use canned air from a about 300mm distance every 20 or so
lens changes. You might find wet swabs are only needed if there is a
film of gunk on the sensor. Like you might get with a zoom lens
pumping air in and out of the body at a race car meeting. Otherwise,
once you do a wet clean, you can charge a nylon brush with canned air
and pick up dust as you wipe the brush across to sensor.

Doug
www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com

On Aug 8, 7:40 pm, "gowanoh" wrote:
Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?

I use them. I like them. They work well, and I like the liquid a bit
more than Eclipse.

A quick note: Most of the time, I don't clean my sensors with much
more than a blast of air--rocket hand blower, not a can of pressurized
air which can ruin a sensor in a rush--or a couple of swipes with a
Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly. I used to use nylon make-up brushes
(well washed and rinsed, of course) charged with canned air until the
day one brush lost a bristle that landed across the sensor and took me
an hour to retrieve.

Charlie Self wrote:

A quick note: Most of the time, I don't clean my sensors with much
more than a blast of air--rocket hand blower, not a can of pressurized
air which can ruin a sensor in a rush

While this is good advice, I did once screw up & sprayed my D70 sensor
with the can tilted down & the blast of ice cold liquid did not harm the
sensor. I can imagine it might though!

--
Paul Furman Photography
http://edgehill.net
Bay Natives Nursery
http://www.baynatives.com

frederick wrote:

gowanoh wrote:

Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?

No, but I've used pec pads with high purity isoprpoyl alcohol

Eclipse is methanol but I once had a stubborn bit of grime that required
rubbing alcohol (ethanol) which the eclipse would not cut through.

on a home-made plastic "wand".
It has worked extremely well, easy to do, and for a total cost of only a
few dollars I've got enough pads and fluid to last several lifetimes, or
perhaps even to set up a commercial sensor cleaning service.


--
Paul Furman Photography
http://edgehill.net
Bay Natives Nursery
http://www.baynatives.com

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:40:21 -0700, "gowanoh"
wrote:

Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor Clean)?


OK. Here is where I chime in as a utter newbie....

I thought, from all IU have read, that these sensors are so frafile
that even a little compressed air runs the risk of destroying them???

Have I been suckered in by the spin again??

wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:40:21 -0700, "gowanoh"
wrote:

Has anyone used these for cleaning their dSLR sensor?
With or without their recommended liquid (Vdust formula/Sensor
Clean)?


OK. Here is where I chime in as a utter newbie....

I thought, from all IU have read, that these sensors are so frafile
that even a little compressed air runs the risk of destroying them???

Have I been suckered in by the spin again??

Use a manually operated puffer instead. The cans of compressed air can
squirt liquid at the sensor if used incorrectly.

David

Actually, silicon is not all that fragile. I have a few pieces (unpackaged
integrated circuits) for you to try...
And in any case, you cannot access the sensor, because it's covered with an
anti-alias filter. So that's on what all the dust lands. Now, if someone
explained to us what these are made of...

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:40:21 -0700, "gowanoh"
wrote:
I thought, from all IU have read, that these sensors are so frafile
that even a little compressed air runs the risk of destroying them???

Have I been suckered in by the spin again??