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gfiksel
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p.2 #1 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

The most effective dust attracting material is water. You submerge the camera into water and then swap the lenses, all the dust will be gone.

Aug 11, 2008 at 07:17 PM

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p.2 #2 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

Ben Horne wrote:
mdude85 wrote:
A lot of aggression on this thread ....

I'm sorry, but I don't see anyone clubbing fur seals, or kicking puppies here. I've had quite a few digital SLR cameras (D30, 1D, 1D mark II, 5D, 1Ds mark II, and 1Ds mark III), and I've never really had a problem with dust. If you see a large spec in your camera, simply blow some air in there and the big specs are gone. If you have some annoying little ones, just use some swabs and they're gone. You're never going to have the sensor 100% perfectly clean, but all the little specs won't show up in real world shots anyways ---- so why obsess about it?

My guess is that those who obsess so much about sensor dust are the same people that obsess so much about a few specs of dust here and there in their lenses. Really folks, it's not a big deal. Just go out there and enjoy your camera. Take photos, and if you see some big offensive specs --- take the 30 seconds that it takes to clean your camera. It's not like we're trying to land a man on Mars here.

Agree. It seems more and more that some folks are more interested in having gear and obsessing about it than actually putting it to its intended use. Get out and shoot and quit worrying about the minutiae. When the sensor gets dirty, clean it. Very simple.

And I'm against clubbing seals and kicking puppies. Now, cats on the other hand...

Aug 11, 2008 at 07:49 PM

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p.2 #3 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

Well, let's see: I've gput over 5,000 shots on my drive, selected, edited & cropped, in the last three months. 3X that were experiments I threw away. I hope that's enough for you folks. Gee, I'm so impressed with your professionalism!

BTW- I found what I needed, & made a dust-ring on Saturday. Tested it in a purposely dusty room, and it works great. Swings down & velcros to the bottom of the camera when not in use. Nice.

You guys can now stop reading this thread and go be all professional again.

(the time you wasted posting useless comments here could have been better spent removing dust-spots from your photos in PS. -and while you're doing that I'll be out shooting.)

Enjoy yourselves.

Edited on Aug 11, 2008 at 09:11 PM

Aug 11, 2008 at 08:42 PM

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p.2 #4 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

Cableaddict wrote:
Well, let's see: I've gput over 5,000 shots on my drive, selected, edited & cropped, in the last three months. 3X that were experiments I threw away. I hope that's enough for you folks. Gee, I'm so impressed with your professionalism!

BTW- I found what I needed, & made a dust-ring on Saturday. Tested it in a purposely dusty room, and it works great. Swings down & velcros to the bottom of the camera when not in use. Nice.

You guys can now stop reading this thread and go be all professional again.

(the time you wasted posting useless comments here could have been better spent removing dust-spots from your photos in PS. -and while you're doing that I'll be out shooting.)

Enjoy yourselves.

But did you get any dust on the drive with your 5000 shots

Aug 11, 2008 at 09:44 PM

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p.2 #5 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

This is quite funny, I have to admit.

The only feasible solution is to statically charge some part fo the lens to attract dust, but you would need quite a strong charge for it to be effective and it would be difficult to engineer a solution.

Aug 11, 2008 at 10:02 PM

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p.2 #6 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

My TV and crt monitors are great at attracting dust. I suppose one could charge a collector off that but I'd be concerned that having an uncontrolled, unregulated "static" potential near the sensitive electronics and then pulling a lens and body apart may change that static electrical potential to real moving electrical current - nor that even if it's in/on a fairly good collector, that it won't migrate ovr the rest of the conductiv surfaces.

Aug 12, 2008 at 01:44 AM

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p.2 #7 · Looking for DUST-ATTRACTING material

Oh, you're already too late to the party. I've found a solution that removes 99% of the dust from my photos. First I shoot 1000 pictures. Next I throw away 990 because they aren't worth a cr@p. Now I'm 99% dust free!

A little cloning on the remaining 10 photos and I'm 100%. Can't beat that!!!

Aug 12, 2008 at 05:18 PM


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