Handbags and snot rags
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I dont carry a bag when out shooting, so I usually end up walking out the door with just my body/lens and a IF I remember... then a lens cleaning cloth too.
I asked a bespectacled fellow snapper if I could borrow his cleaning cloth last weekend - he said he didnt have one, and handed me the rag he used to clean his glasses. Being the grateful sort, I didnt ask him whether he had blown his bloody nose on it (it was obvious he had) as my lens was left all greasy and smeary
Two questions:
1) Over time, can damage be done if the lens is not cleaned. I find stains much harder to remove the longer I leave them. Im probably paranoid, but I dont like cleaning the lens either, always worried there will be a minute particle of grit-dust on the cloth, which will grind scratches into the glass when I clean it.
2) Same question regarding the sensor. With all the temperature/humidity changes (and dust spots on my sensor) Im worried the dust on the sensor may become ingrained, and become unremovable. Ive not yet bought an artic butterfly but intend to do so. And I get the impression that one cant rub anything off the sensor, but rather hope to lift dust off with a single dainty pass of the brush. Am I doing the wrong thing by leaving the sensor/dust spots alone for now?
I asked a bespectacled fellow snapper if I could borrow his cleaning cloth last weekend - he said he didnt have one, and handed me the rag he used to clean his glasses. Being the grateful sort, I didnt ask him whether he had blown his bloody nose on it (it was obvious he had) as my lens was left all greasy and smeary
Two questions:
1) Over time, can damage be done if the lens is not cleaned. I find stains much harder to remove the longer I leave them. Im probably paranoid, but I dont like cleaning the lens either, always worried there will be a minute particle of grit-dust on the cloth, which will grind scratches into the glass when I clean it.
2) Same question regarding the sensor. With all the temperature/humidity changes (and dust spots on my sensor) Im worried the dust on the sensor may become ingrained, and become unremovable. Ive not yet bought an artic butterfly but intend to do so. And I get the impression that one cant rub anything off the sensor, but rather hope to lift dust off with a single dainty pass of the brush. Am I doing the wrong thing by leaving the sensor/dust spots alone for now?
Edited by UKBob on Monday 24th July 15:58
poah said:
bob - get yourself a few lens pens. 7day shop hav them on offer 3 for the price of two.
Just signing up now. Which did you go for?
www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=100769
www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=100768
Looks good
V6GTO said:
Cheers. They dont mention the artic butterfly, which I gathered was the best of the bunch. So... you dont/cant clean or touch the sensor then, and sensor cleaning actually means cleaning the glass in front of the sensor?
Ive only ever taken my lens off a few times, ever fearful of dust getting inside.
Just engaged "sensor cleaning" mode, took the lens off, peered inside and I could see what looked like the sensor. Going by that article though, its actually the glass in front of the sensor which is cleaned, though?
UKBob said:
V6GTO said:
Cheers. They dont mention the artic butterfly, which I gathered was the best of the bunch. So... you dont/cant clean or touch the sensor then, and sensor cleaning actually means cleaning the glass in front of the sensor?
Ive only ever taken my lens off a few times, ever fearful of dust getting inside.
Just engaged "sensor cleaning" mode, took the lens off, peered inside and I could see what looked like the sensor. Going by that article though, its actually the glass in front of the sensor which is cleaned, though?
On the EOS site the first bit of kit, the "Visible Dust" kit, has the SD which is, basically, an Arctic Butterfly without the fancy name.
Martin.
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