touchless sensor cleaning

[tobey bilek]

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I allowed an old nikon multicoated to stand without a front cap and it collected around 20 bits of dust.  I unearthed my cleaning supplies and started with the rocket blower.  It came perfectly clean.

 

Now the question is when I attempt to clean a sensor it nearly never works so well?

 

My next steps are air brush which is filtered and about the same force as rocket,  sensor scope and lens pen,  brush,  eclipse 

 

I definitely have come to the conclusion dust can be mostly prevented if;

 

You keep rear caps on the lens

 

Keep the inside of the caps clean

 

inspect and clean as necessary the rear of a lens before mounting it

 

keep the body cap or lens on the camera

 

clean the inside often with blower and shutter closed before dust can migrate to sensor

[earleygallery]

The lens isn't charged with static unlike your cameras sensor.

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[tobey bilek]

OK, so how do I discharge it so I can use the blower.

[laowai_]

I'd go to places like Edmund Optics or Newport and get some industrial grade lens cleaning tissue an d fluid. Newport has a good lens cleaning tutorial at this location: https://www.newport.com/n/how-to-clean-optics

 

I figure if it's good for high power laser optics, I'll certainly work for optical image systems as well.

Edited May 26, 2017 by laowai_

[jaapv]

cleaning without touching? The Green Clean vacuum cleaning system is quite effective.

 

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[jevidon]

An Arctic Butterfly works very well. It builds up its own static charge when you follow directions and the dust lifts off the sensor without actually contacting the sensor surface.