Digital Camera Clean!

[Dulittle]

Cha`o ca'c ba.n,

To^i co' ca'i ma'y Digital Camera model Canon 10D va` ca^`n clean la.i vi` khi chu.p hi`nh thi` tha^'y bu.i ba^.m nhie^`u qu'a va` hi`nh xem kho^ng ddu*o*.c dde.p nu*~a.

Co' ba.n na`o bie^'t cho^? clean vo*'i gia' re~ ti' xi'u o*? San Jose (Bay Area) la`m o*n chi? giu`m.

Ca'm o*n nhie^`u

Dulittle

[andyson3]

Ne` DDo.c cho dda~ ddi.
Lenses
Basic lens cleaning tools are a blower, a fluid. Try to blast dust off the lens fluid. Try to blast dust off the lens with the blower or canned air. Finger prints can be removed with a circular wipe of the new miracle micro fiber cloth (my favorite brand is Pentax because it is nice and thick; about $6). Persistent dirt should be removed with lens cleaning fluid, of which the safest is probably Kodak. Always drip the fluid onto the cloth and then wipe the lens; never put fluid directly onto a lens. My personal favorite is Residual Oil Remover, available in many camera shops for about $4.

Even if your lenses don't look dirty, every few months you should give exposed surfaces a cleaning with Residual Oil Remover (ROR). Even if you were able to protect your optics from all environmental sources of filth, there would still be crud condensing on your optics as camera bag plastics outgas. ROR has a bunch of advertising hype about how you can get a full 1/2 stop of extra brightness from your lenses after a treatment. I haven't experimentally verified this nor do I believe it, but the optics do look visibly clearer after an ROR treatment.
I don't like to obsess over my equipment, so I keep a B+W UV filter on almost all of my lenses. I count on replacing the filters every few years rather than being paranoid all the time.

SLR mirrors
Don't even think about cleaning the mirror in your SLR. Maybe, just maybe, you could consider using a handheld blower to move a few dust specs off, but canned air is too powerful. Technicians clean mirrors with some kind of special viscous fluid and will often do it for free at camera clinics run by shops or conventions. Mirrors have very fragile surfaces and I wouldn't dream of getting near them with a standard lens cleaning solution or cloth.

Flash Contacts
Modern TTL flash systems have numerous contacts and if you don't clean them every now and then with a pencil eraser or something, you can be fairly sure of getting intermittent failures.

The Camera Body Itself
Camera and lens bodies are fairly well sealed against dust and moisture. So you don't really ever have to clean the exteriors of your equipment. On the other hand, if you don't want the dirt and crud that is on the camera body to work its way into your camera bag and from there onto an optical surface, it is probably worth wiping off the body with a soft cloth. Slightly dampening the cloth with plain water certainly won't do any harm, though I imagine that this wouldn't be Canon or Nikon's recommendation.

[allah18]

:) much need info. Thanks!

[mitdat]

Thx !

[zhiCali]

Keeble & Schuchat ở Palo Alto có bán swipe cloth + solution to clean sensor. Hỏi người bán cách làm & cẩn thận chắc được mà. Solution thì rẻ, nhưng swipe cloth thì .. mấy chục đồng 1 pack lận.

Keeble nằm trên đường California, gần Oregon & El Camino Real.