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Tom in Virginia

My dust is GONE

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2010

I have a nearly new Nikon D300s and I was nervous about performing contact-cleaning of my sensor. But since B&H sold me an apparently used camera as "new" (no more to say about that here), my "new" camera was in need of cleaning. I tried the air blower attack, but there were two spots that were not moving.

After much investigation, I decided to buy the Sensor Loupe and the Sensor Klear pen. As others have said, installing the batteries is a pain. I put them in backwards the first time (there IS a tiny "+" and "-" sign on the Loupe). Fortunately no damage resulted.

Using the Loupe made it very easy to see the offending spots. The access hole in the Loupe is clever and makes it easy to position it so you can access dust specs anywhere on the sensor. I hit the dust specs with the Pen very carefully, and removed one and loosened the other. Using the blower, I was finally rid of them both.

As I was told by several professional photographers, if you own a DSLR you will get dust on the sensor and you must learn to clean it yourself. You can't beat this tool for your lens cleaning needs. I must say I am used to working on small electronic devices but I think anybody that is careful can use this cleaning solution.

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Coronet Blue

Loupe's great

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2010

I found the loupe in this kit is really helpful. Besides being cheaper than Visible Dust (what isn't?) this loupe is "cut away" so you can insert a tool or swab and actually see what you are doing. The battery door is a little delicate and the illustration of the battery installation shows them with polarity reversed from top to bottom. No big deal. Contrary to the other reviews, batteries for the loupe are ridiculously cheap on that auction site. I've never seen button batteries that cost so little; I wonder how anyone, even the Chinese, can make them so inexpensively. I did not find the LensPen effective and if anything, it coaxed me into nudging the dust with too much force. I settled on a combination of the LensPen Loupe with the Kinetronics Speck Grabber. Its a little tedious but seems to work really well. Your results may be different but there is so much ionic electrostatic photovoltaic cleaning stuff out there, there is something for everyone. (Except, I don't think they sell the radioactive dust brushes any more--darn.) Absolutely worth it for the loupe alone.

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Nice kit if not a little too expensive

Tdubl

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2016

First off, this kit a a bit on the high side for what it is. However saying that, the loupe is awesome, you can spot specs with zero problem and then use the pen to grab them and clean them up. The pen works well, although it can leave some dust behind. So you must blow it out and repeat. However, some of the dust leftover from the pen might prove to be tough to just blow off, so I went back over my sensor (with loupe attached) with the pen again and got all the remaining dust left for a super clean sensor. Need to use a little pressure to get it. Not sure if it's any better or worse than wet swabs or any other method, but it worked well for me. Took a couple of minutes and it was done. The included blower is nice and big, and is filtered from what I can tell (which it should be). The loupe runs on triple aaa's and comes with two in the package.

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Great tool, makes cleaning my sensor a lot easier

Richard C. Drew

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2010

I've been cleaning my camera sensor for years, using blowers, sticky pads, pec-pads, static brush and all the other assorted tools. Usually it's blower, check sensor, brush, check sensor, sticky-pad, check sensor, pec-pad, check sensor, pec-pad, check sensor. Repeat. Checking the sensor involved a penlight in one hand and squinting at the sensor.

The loupe makes the "checking" part a lot easier. I still try the "blower" part first, but then move on to the sensor pen.

The batteries were tough to install. It uses several "button" batteries, so battery replacement will be expensive. BUT it did include two sets. Probably enough for a year or more.

It's a great addition to my cleaning arsenal.

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La loupe est très utile est efficace, la soufflette et le stylo bien moins (sur mon appareil)

Reviewed in Belgium on October 7, 2023

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La loupe est très utile es efficace, la soufflette et le stylo bien moins (sur mon appareil)
La loupe est très bien mais quand même, étant pas adaptée 100% à mon appareil, il faut la tenir en main, un peu en l'air, pour y voir net, et ça bouge un peu, mais ok.
La soufflette, le stylo .... il parait que c'est top, mais dans mon cas, je dis bien mon cas (appareil NikonZfc APC-C) qui possède un appareil dramatiquement nid à poussière (une passoire même sans changer l'objectif) dont le capteur attire et retient fortement la poussière (anormalement, incroyablement), ça ne suffit pas à dépoussiérer le capteur. J'ai essayé d'autres solutions, pour le moment c'est assez désespérant.
Mais factuellement, ce lenspen convient très bien pour enlever des taches, ça évite de passer au produit liquide et a swab, par contre, il dépose (en tout cas sur mon appareil) autant de poussières qu'il en enlève.

Sonia

Perfecto para limpieza

Reviewed in Spain on November 20, 2021

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Me lo recomendó el servicio técnico oficial de Sony

Ailton

Vale a pena

Reviewed in Brazil on March 28, 2020

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Muito útil.

BarryS

Great product

Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2017

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Perfect. As expected.

landini.m

Un kit davvero utile

Reviewed in Italy on June 1, 2016

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Superata la diffidenza iniziale, dopo aver letto guida e soprattutto video tutorial in rete, mi sono fatto coraggio e ho provato per la prima volta a pulire il sensore della macchina fotografica, una Nikon D7000, che non veniva pulita da anni (e si vedeva, purtroppo). Sono contentissimo del risultato, il sensore è stato completamente pulito.
Per l'uso della pompetta: è importante prima pulire lo specchio, poi passare al sensore. E tenere la videocamera rivolta verso il basso, di modo che la polvere non si depositi nuovamente sul sensore.
Per la pennetta: bisogna farci la mano, ma è questione di minuti e di superare la paura iniziale: appoggiando la penna sulla polvere, la polvere rimane attaccata.

In allegato le foto del "prima e dopo". Gli scatti sono a F/22, per "esaltare" le macchie

Fatta la stessa operazione sulla D600, anche in questo caso ottimi risultati.

Suggerisco vivamente di guardare qualcuno dei numerosi video che si trovano in rete: alcuni spiegano molto bene e danno consigli davvero utili.

Ho concluso il lavoro con le spatoline monouso Rollei 27002 in entrambi i casi per rimuovere definitivamente le tracce di polvere.

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