Dusting Plush

[Colleen "Grygon" Wright]

Dang, I'm glad I was reading this today! I was just last week
considering using my computer's cleaner on my Nikon D70. It has
something, somewhere on the lens that leaves a burry, but tiny, dot on
all my photoes. I've been using Adobe's "bandaid" toolto get it out
for a year now, but I just want to clean the thing off. Problem is- i
can't see it with my naked eye, I've looked and looked for the bugger.
O.o

Yeah... actually it wasn't about dissolving the plastics so much as
foaming up and leaving a layer of non-evaporating chemical goop all
over the sensor. I don't think I ever got all of it out of the
corners where the frame is overlaid on the sensor surface.
Fortunately you can't really tell on the photos...
Brian

[Brian Tiemann]

Well, if it's on the *lens* (rather than the sensor), then you
should be okay using your air sprayer-- but you'd probably get much
better results just using a lens cleaning cloth. Though of course
that won't help you much if the piece of gunk in question is on the
*inside* of the lens, like on one of mine... :P

Brian

Post by Colleen "Grygon" Wright
Dang, I'm glad I was reading this today! I was just last week
considering using my computer's cleaner on my Nikon D70. It has
something, somewhere on the lens that leaves a burry, but tiny, dot on
all my photoes. I've been using Adobe's "bandaid" toolto get it out
for a year now, but I just want to clean the thing off. Problem is- i
can't see it with my naked eye, I've looked and looked for the bugger.
O.o

Yeah... actually it wasn't about dissolving the plastics so
much as
foaming up and leaving a layer of non-evaporating chemical goop all
over the sensor. I don't think I ever got all of it out of the
corners where the frame is overlaid on the sensor surface.
Fortunately you can't really tell on the photos...
Brian

[Colleen "Grygon" Wright]

it probobly is somewhere on the inside, or sensor, cause i've cleaned,
very gently, the outside before and it hasn't gone away. next time i
change the lens i'm going to a hospital, stripping my clothes,
showering, then chaging it before i put anything back on. it's so
hard to keep anything technical clean with this many animals around.

Post by Brian Tiemann
Well, if it's on the *lens* (rather than the sensor), then you
should be okay using your air sprayer-- but you'd probably get much
better results just using a lens cleaning cloth. Though of course
that won't help you much if the piece of gunk in question is on the
*inside* of the lens, like on one of mine... :P
Brian