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Giottos Blower, Worth a switch?

 
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Aug 31, 2010 09:17 |  #1

I already have a blower from ebay that served me fairly well. still has got some speck on my 550D sensor. I do not want to go canon service center for cleaning yet because there are not many specks. Im looking at Giottos. I wonder how is Giottos more superior than my blower from ebay beside that it sucks air from the valve at its bottom? maybe it blows some kind of charged air that can dislodge dust?

And is the large size one more powerful than medium? or it depends on the tip - the smaller the more powerful?

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Aug 31, 2010 09:24 |  #2

Get the large size Rocketblower for more force. I don't know whether it's worth switching, but most people use the Rocketblower.


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Aug 31, 2010 14:25 |  #3

i've had two "rocket blowers" before. one was by giotto's and another by some other company i don't remember. the only difference was the aesthetics. one had the fins at the bottom so it can stand up. the other didn't. both were medium sized also. performance-wise they are the exact same.


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Aug 31, 2010 14:27 |  #4

Not worth the switch.. IMHO.
The "Rocket" is cute, but has no advantage over many others.
In fact, it has a distinct disadvantage, in that the soft black rubber is far more likely to degrade than most other blowers.


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Aug 31, 2010 15:07 |  #5

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #10824279 (external link)
Not worth the switch.. IMHO.
The "Rocket" is cute, but has no advantage over many others.
In fact, it has a distinct disadvantage, in that the soft black rubber is far more likely to degrade than most other blowers.

mine is blue :lol:




  
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Aug 31, 2010 15:53 |  #6

Note that whatever type you buy, if you have a cat, its potential as a toy will soon be identified - with one swipe of a curious paw they'll realise it rolls easily and if you turn your back, it'll be off the table, onto the floor and away....

I started off with one of those cheap blowers from the drugstore. I have no idea which body orifice it is intended to be used in, what fearsome malady it is intended to relieve nor what method of application must be used alhough it must surely involve a degree of wincing.

Maybe I would have been happier if mine was blue rather than beige. For me, beige is never a reassuring medical color. It is the sort of color in which things are made when they are not desirable but are in hope of being concealed or minimised and the person involved has certainly turned to the item as an instrument of last resort.
I had a boyfriend with a beige company car once and it was much the same.

In any case, my overactive imagination made me wonder if people were speculating when I got my bodily aid out in public and so before long, since everyone else seems to have the rocket blower, I succumbed to peer pressure and bought the finned one.

It seems the photographer who gave me the medical orifice blaster was right, in use, it isn't any different to the rocket and perhaps, as he claimed, it is only the gullible and image conscious who fork out the extra for the rocket blower but the fins have made it less attractive to the cat so I've got an excuse.
And I don't shudder when I get it out of the bag.




  
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