What is your favorite sensor brush?

So far I've been sending the camera to nikon for cleaning, but there has to be a good way to do it at home. What would be the best/safest possible solution, and where to buy it?

I use a 3/4" very soft artist brush which can be purchased at Michaels, Hobby Lobby or any art shop. Use canned air to charge brush. Included is Thom Hogan's thoughts on cleaning.

http://www.bythom.com/cleaning.htm

Hi, I clean my sensor with the Copper Hill Basic Sensor kit. Have been doing it for about a year without any problems. Started with my D100 and D70 and now using it on my D200. Just make sure you follow the recommendations and exercise caution and things will turn out fine.

You can google Copper Hill to find the website.

-Rudy

thank you, I looked at both, they both look professional, and get a lot of good reviews.

Visibledust seems more expensive and they lull around their SFT being a magic thing that would give you that extra edge... a brush is a brush is a brush, or is it?

Copper Hill seems a bit more down-to-earth, aside of being cheaper.

Also, pretty much everbody has declared a war on air can blowers. Would be a vacuum a better solution?

I had a thread about my first time cleaning the sensor
on the D200 just a few days ago. I used the copperhill kit
shown here (with the blower which worked fine):

I also got there wet kit, but have not used it.

Great instructions come with it.

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Lou

http://loutent.smugmug.com/

ANY nylon bristled brush will work. Within reason. Spend a few bucks on a GOOD art brush. The really cheap ones may not work as well.

It should be soft (flexible) and should be absolutely clean of sizing. That's a glue like substance that makes the bristles nice and stiff for display. Wash with clean warm water many times. (There is a link soemwhere on how to use a lens filter to check for any residue, but I don't have it handy.)

Mine cost me about $7 as mentioned in the header. A can of compressed are is about $3.

95% of the time a good shot or two from a rocket blower clears the dust for me. So far, that other 5% has been handled just fine with my dime store visible dust brush. YMMV.

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Chefziggy
http://www.pbase.com/chefziggy/lecream

Anyone buy the super-expensive invisibledust brushes? Do they work ok for sensor cleaning or are there any good alternatives to clean the sensor of a D50?

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Once a Nikonian, always a Nikonian.

I just got the arctic butterfly. Now whilst it seemed a like a lot to blow $100 on a BRUSH!, all I can say is: WOW! It really works.

Not easy for me to post picks, but my year old D70 had got progressively dustier (with a particularly huge splodge in the middle visible at above f/2.8, which was a real pain to remove off a couple hundred holiday shots), but after a couple of swipes of the AB, it is completely clean.

I love it! Well worth the money, IMO. It should last for years, recouping its cost in no time.

Matt

Fins said:

Anyone buy the super-expensive invisibledust brushes? Do they work
ok for sensor cleaning or are there any good alternatives to clean
the sensor of a D50?

--
Once a Nikonian, always a Nikonian.

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