Digital Camera cleaner

[sweetdiesel]

Any digital guys using the artic butterfly?

http://www.visibledust.com/

I need to clean the sensor in my wife's D70 and was looking at using this electrostatically charged brush to do the job instead of bringing it in for a cleaning. The local camera shops charge $75-100 per cleaning...that can add up really quickly.

Here's a couple reviews

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

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/visible-dust.shtml

I know there are alot of digital photography guys here so just thought I'd pass along the info. Anyone heard anything bad about these types of brushes? I'll probably be getting the artic butterfly and one of the all in one cleaning kits so I can do the entire camera.

 

[FastEddy]

These are the two exact products that my LCS used to clean with. He cleaned mine a while back and its a great setup. The only issue I could see is the metal they use to hold the bristles on could scratch the sensor if you "DiG" to deep or happen to drop it inside the camera while cleaning it. If your careful it shouldn't be an issue.

He has been using the system for about a year on many different cameras and its holding up just fine. For use on a single camera it should be a one time investment minus a refill on chemicals sometime down the road.

You do know not to use canned air, don't you! Thats why your looking at theses units isnt it!. :
There are 1 or 2 on the market that are approved for camera lenses but not for the CCDs. You need to remove the dust, not just blow it off the CCD. The air pressure from the cans can damage the internal moving parts as well.

 

[sweetdiesel]

It's definitely a one time investment, the brushes I could see using much more often than the cleaning solutions. It can be a time saver as well, the LCS has a turn around time of a few days to do a cleaning.