A lot of aggression on this thread .... anyway, to the OP, what you're suggesting sounds like a good idea, but really it's a bad idea. Any kind of material available to consumers that you merely slap on near your sensor is going to do more harm than good because it will attract dust to your camera but will not be able to trap all the dust it attracts -- so a lot more dust will settle on your sensor.
plus you're probably describing a product that needs to be based on electronic circuitry so it can be turned on and off, else it will be attracting dust non-stop. So that raises the question of how bulky will this item be that is attached to a lens or body, and whether you want such a device close to sensitive electronics.
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.
Ben Horne wrote:
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. ...Show more →
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...
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.)
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.)
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.
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.
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!!!
A little cloning on the remaining 10 photos and I'm 100%. Can't beat that!!! 