visibledust brush/cleaner or eclipse + pec pads?

[transcend]

I need to pick up some sensor cleaning gear this week,a nd cannot decide whether or not I should get some pec swabs and eclipse fluid, or the visible dust fluid/swabs and brush?

The pec stuff seems rather expensive, especially when I can get a brush + cleaner for just over $100. The brush doesn't have to be replaced and seems like a great solution as long as it works.

Does anyone have any personal experience with the visible dust gear?

[robertwgross]

I've used cotton swabs and lens cleaner for years now.

---Bob Gross---

[transcend]

I've used cotton swabs and lens cleaner for years now.

---Bob Gross---

Everything I read said to avoid cotton swabs like the plague?

I got somepec pads and eclipse for $10. Cleaned the main sensor, but there is a ton of crud in the corners, how can you get them clean with a regular old cotton swab?

[HKFEVER]

Go with the Copperhillimages' sensor cleaning kit. After several test run, 99% of the dust is gone.

And after another several sucess cleaning, you can get 99.9999% clean (nothing in this earth is 100% clean.

I am quite stupid, because up till now I still can't figure out that when dust shows up on the upper right corner of a picture then actually in which corner the dust should be on the sensor:
- Lower right corner, or
- Lower left corner? :oops:

[HKFEVER]

Everything I read said to avoid cotton swabs like the plague?

I got somepec pads and eclipse for $10. Cleaned the main sensor, but there is a ton of crud in the corners, how can you get them clean with a regular old cotton swab?
Corner and edge is tough, simply because the sensor chamber is so small and the swab is not 100% perfect shape.

Don't use cotton swab, because some fine cotton may get caught and stay between the fine gab of the low pass filter and the chamber.

[robertwgross]

Everything I read said to avoid cotton swabs like the plague?

Well, you read this on the Internet, so it must be true!

If the cotton swab leaves a cotton fiber behind, it is huge, and it can be plucked off easily.

If you have your camera in a horizontal orientation pointed upward with the lens off, then get a very bright light straight overhead. You can easily see the crud on the sensor, and you can see where the swab is going, and you can see a fiber. It's simple.

---Bob Gross---

[pierrot]

What about an air bomb ?