There are micro attachments for a regular canister vacuum cleaner that work
extremely well for many jobs (dunno about sensors though). My Eureka
canister fortunately has a slider on the hose that when opened reduces the
amount of vacuum at the tip of whatever attachment one is using, otherwise
it'll suck the chrome off an OM-1. The tips are refined enough even to
make it useful for cleaning inside the camera chamber a little bit. The
brush attachment is about the only thing I would allow near anything inside
the camera and I don't let the brush actually touch the mirror, etc.
Joel W.
At 11:25 PM 3/14/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>I thought they were a good idea especially for cleaning the sensor on a
>digital SLR, but I have been pretty well talked out of it. Even if you
>suck off the dust, dust laden air is drawn in to replace the air going
>into the vacuum cleaner. For blow dusting a sensor, CO2 cartridges,
>very gently discharged, seem to be the current best thing. No
>propellant and no dust.
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, CA
>USA
>On Mar 14, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> > My local Christchurch OM repairman bought from them a tiny vacuum
> > cleaner. You can hold it inside one hand and it runs on 2 AA
> > batteries. It
> > looks like a toy but is VERY good for cameras etc since it takes the
> > dust
> > away rather than blowing it deeper inside.
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