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Hello, just a quick question I have a canon 500d looking at getting some cleaning equipment for it to keep it in good condition any specific things or makes I should be looking for??
 
inlineadam said:
For the sensor:

GIve a few blasts using a Giottos Rocket blower to get rid of any loose dust ( hold camera facing down )....
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Myth.

The acceleration (and therefore direction of travel) of the dust due to gravity is negligible compared with that due to the air blast. Consider a grain of dust falling through the air under gravity. A blower is held under it and discharged. Will the dust continue to fall, of go where the air jet takes it?

If you blow into a camera body with a blower then the dust will tend to go with the airstream until it comes to a sharp corner where it will try to go straight on. This is the basic principle of a bagless vacuum cleaner. What will often happen is that the dust will get deposited behind the focus screen if the seal between it and the body is less than perfect.

This is where an Arctic Butterfly* comes into it’s own. It creates a static charge which attracts the dust to the brush and does not simply fire it somewhere else.

* Dry dust only, not grease.
 
Oggy said:
Myth.

The acceleration (and therefore direction of travel) of the dust due to gravity is negligible compared with that due to the air blast. Consider a grain of dust falling through the air under gravity. A blower is held under it and discharged. Will the dust continue to fall, of go where the air jet takes it?

If you blow into a camera body with a blower then the dust will tend to go with the airstream until it comes to a sharp corner where it will try to go straight on. This is the basic principle of a bagless vacuum cleaner. What will often happen is that the dust will get deposited behind the focus screen if the seal between it and the body is less than perfect.
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Couldn't agree less.

The blast from the rocket blower is to dislodge the dust particle from the sensor. Through the force of gravity and the camera pointing downwards, the particle is pulled downwards out of the camera.

It will only go places you don't want it to if you're stupid enough to stick the nozzle right next to the sensor at an angle.
 
Lets not talk about rocket blowers then, 50% of people here will tell you to use one, 50% will tell you not to.

It's not going to do any harm if you wan't to use one, it's up to you.
 
inlineadam said:
Lets not talk about rocket blowers then, 50% of people here will tell you to use one, 50% will tell you not to.

It's not going to do any harm if you wan't to use one, it's up to you.
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A lot cheaper than the butterfly......
 
Trig's said:
A lot cheaper than the butterfly......
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Exactly what i was thinking - a butterfly isn't going to exactly remove sticky dust so it just seems pointless to me...

Anyway, the anti rocket blower people will soon be on to us if we keep talking about them :lol:

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inlineadam said:
Exactly what i was thinking - a butterfly isn't going to exactly remove sticky dust so it just seems pointless to me...

Anyway, the anti rocket blower people will soon be on to us if we keep talking about them :lol:

:canon:
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Wouldn't be a forum if they didn't - this should go in the filter or not to filter, original grip or a wanna be grip (same as batteries) :lol:
 
inlineadam said:
Couldn't agree less.

The blast from the rocket blower is to dislodge the dust particle from the sensor. Through the force of gravity and the camera pointing downwards, the particle is pulled downwards out of the camera.

It will only go places you don't want it to if you're stupid enough to stick the nozzle right next to the sensor at an angle.
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Drivel. You clearly have little knowledge of physics. If you were right, bagless vacuums would not work.
 
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