Dust Be Gone!

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Dust Be Gone!

Postby mrjake2002 » Fri May 16, 2008 9:04 am

I got some dust on the sensor of my 400D (my own fault) and I was pretty annoyed. I was also very nervous about cleaning it myself.. I looked at the arctic butterfly cleaning pen but it is quite expensive. Then, I stumbled upon the Lenspen SensorKlear... It uses a carbon compound to clean and is only about
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Re: Dust Be Gone!

Postby Omag 2.0 » Fri May 16, 2008 12:38 pm

Looks like you did a good job!

I messed up my first cleaning experiment with my arctic butterfly 700 - the dust was gone after passing it over the sensor once, except for 1 dot as shown in you shot. During the second pass I must have touched the sides of the chamber, resulting in an oily streak over the sensor.

Wet cleaning took care of that, but I was still crossed about it.
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Re: Dust Be Gone!

Postby Roughrider » Fri May 16, 2008 12:45 pm

Thanks for the Info, I ordered one of these. Mark
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Re: Dust Be Gone!

Postby a1 » Sat May 17, 2008 10:03 am

Very interesting.
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