You need the Eclipse Fluid (which is extremely pure methanol) and the sensor swabs - the Type 2 swab is right for the *ist-D. I bought those and the rubber "spec grabber" - the rubber thing really doesn't cut it with the sensor - odds are if the dust particle is big enough for your to see you can blow it off with a hand blower. What the spec grabber _is_ nice for if getting those annoying bits of dust off the ground glass in any SLR (digital or not).
The swabs are expensive - you are supposed to use them only once per side - so wet, wipe, flip, wipe, toss. I think my record was something like 8 swabs.
The pads are just little squares of special material - you'd have to wrape them around something to get them down into the sensor. I would not try it, They make nice lens cleaning cloths, though a bit small....
the brush sounds like a good option - I only resort to the swabs once in a while, otherwise the dust blower (ear syringe) works best. As I mentioned in a prior post - I bought a fancy high powered hand held blower, but it seems to just spew crude onto the lens. I do use it to blow off negs before scanning though.
HTH -
MCC
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www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Zaninovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:56 AM
Subject: eclipse + pec pads for CCD cleaning
I noticed that my macro shots have many dust particles visible in pictures. That is not a big problem right now as there are no insects anyway but I have to prepare for the spring. Canned air do not work for extra small dust and I have hundreds of those.
I ordered some eclipse, pec pads and some kind of rubber wand and I hope I will not destroy my CCD. :) I don't like the idea of a static brush, too expensive and I don't think it will work for stuck dust so I will have to use eclipse anyway. Better to learn how to use it from the start then. Maybe if the static brush were around $30 I would buy it as an addition to my cleaning kit but at more than $100 I don't think it is the right price.
