Leon, Have you ever heard of Speckgrabber from Kinetronics? It's a little plastic stick with an adhesive tip that lifts dust from mirrors, screens, CCD's and other surfaces without leaving a mark or residue. Give it a try. Using blower bulb is the worst thing you can do, I tried removing specks off the focusing screen of my ZX-5N and ended up making things worse. That little experiment cost me $70 as I had to send the camera to professional cleaning service. And never, ever use compressed air or vacuum on the inside of SLR, you'll risk damaging the mirror assembly.
The link to Speckgrabber is: http://www.kinetronics.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/online-store/scstore/speckgrabber_product.html?L+scstore+dvqv7944ff476a47+1083903364 Hope this helps, Best regards, Albert >My *ist D has become a pain in the bum!I am continually having to clean the >innards of it due to little black spots appearing all over the shots.I have >placed a new focussing screen in it to no avail,checked and recked my >lenses(and cleaned them)to no avail.My blower has collapsed from over use.Am >now thinking of using a vacuum cleaner to suck out the dust.Can anybody >please offer some sensible advice as to some other methods.Otherwise it is >back to the shop I suppose. >Waiting in breathless anticipation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
