Quoting Bill <[email protected]>:
One of the things that will turn grown men into mewling kittens is
any mention of using canned gas as a dust removing method for cameras.
Don't do it, they say, it is instant death for your camera.
Sometimes so stridently that one would think they were having kittens.
But really, how unsafe is it? What is the very worst case scenario?
How about a blast of liquid straight from the can?
I invite you to watch a short 1 minute (very amateur) video. The
white blast at the 15 second mark is a blast from an upside down
canned gas container being unloaded into the mirror box of a Pentax
*istD camera.
The camera suffered absolutely no ill effects from this abuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3rk1sAPxc
as always, have fun.
Bill's mentioned this several times over the years, so a couple of
years ago I took a deep breath, crossed fingers and toes and cleaned
the sensor of my *ist DS with Dust-Off. No problems.
Not long after that I bought a K200D and later a K-5 and found that
the in-camera the dust removal was effective enough (especially with
the K-5) that I've never needed to repeat the exercise. I'm happy to
clean up the few persistent dust spots in post.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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