Visible Dust - Arctic Butterfly. A review.

[V6GTO]

£60. (Bare that in mind)

It works, make no bones about it, my sensor is spotless.

£60! For a brush that spins and must have cost all of £5 to produce! Not a happy bunny to be taken for a mug, but then again, my sensor is cleaner than yours

I'm assuming they put those two brush covers in to bulk up the package so you don't feel quite so ripped off.



Martin.



>> Edited by V6GTO on Friday 14th April 12:49

[Bee_Jay]

Totally agree with you.

Frequently travel abroad, so this is the only real option for me and it is fantastic, but £60 for a spinny brush is a little over the top.

Still give it a good cleaning with pec-pads now and again and before special jobs, but the Arctic butterfly is great when out and about.

[LongQ]

The Luminous Landscape review sees the price as reasonable for the technology involved. I guess for a busy Pro regularly travelling it is.


www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/arctic-butterfly.shtml

[poah]

I use the brushes martin - expensive yes but safe unless your a complete idiot

[fergusd]

Don't you think that lots of dust problems are actually caused by over cleaning ?

Granted, ultimately you will get dust in there, but . . . why do some people have so many problems ?

Fd

[V6GTO]

I think the problem might be relative to the amount one changes lenses. I know on my recent trip to Jerez that I was changing lenses 40-50 times a day at least.

Martin.

[darthdicky]

Been looking at buying some sensor swab things and cleaning fluid (about $35), but the only international shipping option they give is $65! Is there any other way to get the stuff sent over? I would email them but thought I'd find out how anyone else got hold of this stuff first.

Edited to add, don't worry, just found it on Warehouse Express

>> Edited by darthdicky on Friday 14th April 19:22

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

V6GTO said:

I think the problem might be relative to the amount one changes lenses. I know on my recent trip to Jerez that I was changing lenses 40-50 times a day at least. Martin.

The other thing I've found is the 1D is much more of a dust hoover than the 10D. Different sensor technology making the 1D generate more static maybe?

[V6GTO]

Maybe Phil, but the 1D is twice as good as the 20D.

Martin.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

V6GTO said:

Maybe Phil, but the 1D is twice as good as the 20D. Martin.

The 10D is amusingly slow compared with the 1DmkII. 10D can still produce some great images though, just not as many per second

[srider]

I bought one of these, just tried it on my 1D and it's the cleanest it's ever been! I've tried most cleaning methods but this seems to be by far the easiest/best.

[marctwo]

Looks like one of those things you stick in your coffee and makes the milk frothy

>> Edited by marctwo on Wednesday 26th April 17:43

[monkeyhanger]

V6GTO said:

Maybe Phil, but the 1D is twice as good as the 20D.

And at 3 times the price, it should be

As for the price of the brush, how much would a couple of "professional" cleans cost?

I should think it will pay for itself pretty quickly.

[gizard]

were does the dust go though? if you just brush it off the sensor to the side surely it will end up back ont he sensor fairly rapidly?

[gizard]

doh! just read the report - looks like a worth while buy my sensor's filthy!

[LongQ]

www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/arctic-butterfly-2.shtml

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

monkeyhanger said:

As for the price of the brush, how much would a couple of "professional" cleans cost? I should think it will pay for itself pretty quickly.

Yup, I pay about £45 a good for a shop clean in London. Fixation are very good though...

[V6GTO]

ThatPhilBrettGuy said:

I pay about £45 a good for a shop clean in London. Fixation are very good though...

Yeah, but you've got more money than the rest of us put together, Phil!

Martin.