Olympus Europe has partnered with photographer Fernando Marmolejo to share an in-depth guide on how to clean and disinfect both non-weather-sealed and weather-sealed camera systems. While this is clearly an advertisement of sorts for Olympus camera systems, it’s also an insightful guide on how you can keep your gear as clean as possible, especially during a global pandemic.
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The nearly eight-minute-long video is entirely in Spanish, so you’ll want to turn on translated subtitles if you don’t speak the language. Language barriers aside though, this is one of the most in-depth guides on cleaning cameras we’ve come across.
The thought of using actual soap and water on a camera — even a weather-sealed camera — can be daunting, but Marmolejo’s guide breaks down how you can do just that without breaking your gear. And, as helpful and sincere as the guide is, there’s also a bit of humor splashed in throughout the guide.
It’s worth noting that even when following this guide, there is a risk for damage and the possibility you’ll void your camera’s warranty, so proceed with extreme caution, regardless of how weather-sealed your camera is.
[Update, Aug 18th, 4pm PT] The video appears to have been made private.
It is not "Anglo-centric" at all ... Zulus, Japanese, Swedes, French, etc, people without Spanish lanuage skills will also not be able to understand it without appropriate subtitles. I think your comment is Anglophobic.
Nothing new - I have to wash my E-M5 MkIi and 40-150 pro lens down after a few hours down at local surf beach exposed to saltwater spray, rain and airborne sand. The combo is still going strong after 3 years. Good weather-sealing is nice operationally to extend your shooting envelope but also needed so you can clean up gear after the shooting is over.
This is hygiene theater. Transmission from objects, particularly an object that you own yourself and isn't being handled by other people, is an incredibly minimal part of how the virus is transmitted. Being on a unit in the hospital with heavily touched surfaces around infected patients is another story, but disinfecting your own camera? Unnecessary.
Yeah. I've been shocked at how many people are taking advantage of the situation by selling crap like phone disinfectors...
Really, who is routinely passing their phone to other people on a regular basis? (Yes, there are some people who do this, they're generally the same sort of people who are going to massive parties without masks...)
? They still emphasize washing hands. Just because they are putting the point that masks are important doesn't mean they are saying washing hands is less important.
I got several hits on those news, I welcome re-checking as we need to triple check everything today. But that's not a "I am a conservative form UK . com " website.
I imagine Olympus legal department forced takedown out of concern for liability. If anyone attempts to repost let us know if you get subtle prompts to take it down.
I once went through a salt spring in Germany (basically a long building with heavily salted air and moisture) with my Canon 1D2N and 70-200 f/2.8L years ago. Came out and it was all white. Rinsed it off by hand in the fountain outside and kept on shooting. Got some interesting looks from people nearby. 😛
My OM-D E-M1 Mark I was fully submerged by a sea wave. Twice. The camera is fine, but it was an accident....I wouldn't do it in purpose for cleaning. Pretty much alcohol wipes are sufficient.
Because COVID19 is real and has a mortality rate of up to 5.6% for people over the age of 60 compared to the ‘regular’ flu with just 0.39%.
Also ask those people that already have lost relatives, friends or their husband or wife due to this disease. COVID19 is NOT a Hollywood reality show, but an actual disease that does kill.
The number of 0.39% is with a vaccine. Once there is a vaccine for covid it will be the same. Also if you include those with antibodies through antibodies tests Covid is not as scary as the media makes out to be. The media does after all make money on Covid. It's foolish to take the seriously rather then listen to actual doctors.
Correct the Humble Flu was once a terror in the sides of the human population, only now there's a Vaccine is readily available is the rate is way lower then if no Vaccine was had. Here in Australia the FLU season hasnt really come knocking, as many are and are still locked down. I tend to agree with the first comment - Remove the fear from your brain and use common sense
@Grimstod- my real life actual doctor is following all the precautions and totally acknowledges this is a dangerous disease. Taking out the media hype, this is still a dangerous disease.
@Borno - because Covid is a real thing. I mean, you should always remove irrational fears from your brain where you can, I am with you on that. But Covid isn't an irrational fear. it's reality.
But are Americans taking precautions? Add the media back in and In Australia we see US arent taking Precautions at all - Its life as normal it seems...
Pre-cautions are being taken even with the many reported that are not following guidance. It's not true there aren't precautions being taken in the USA at all, that's false. But it's true several that should know better- and depending which state, some are following guidance more than others.
My point is, there are many precautions being taken with Covid and virtually ZERO with flu (I am talking the masks, social distancing, lockdowns, hand washing, etc.). And even with all that Covid has proven far more deadly.
Deniers are the most scared in reality, it is much easier to deny reality than to accept it, especially when reality is as harsh as we are seeing.
Do not be hard on them, they are really scared to assume reality in an adult and responsible way.
It is easier to believe in hidden conspiracies, to cling to any statements of supposed experts that downplay the situation. In a way it is a way of survival and coping with this. As long as they do not put others at risk, they may think that the earth is flat, that climate change does not exist, that vaccines are lara to control us and that Covid 19 does not exist or does not matter.
My advice, live life, exercise caution, don't watch the news, much less watch gurus and denial youtubers. And reading, especially reading, which is the cure for almost everything, starting with ignorance.
@tomhudsonvisual: You can not say a disease is as deadly as WWII, if the number of Americans exposed to WWII was completely different. Obviously only a very small percentage of Americans was exposed to danger in WWII. It's like comparing 'snakes aren't dangerous because no Icelanders die from snakebites' versus 'snakes are the number 1 killer on this planet because 50% of all people in a small Indian cottage died of snakebites. (The other person lived)'
I don’t think he made a claim of deadly but of simple facts of how many people have died on these events. I understand your point, but in terms of claiming the number of deaths total as an event it’s still a valid comparison as a historical event.
I tend to agree with your point - but Dewey metric was not the rule used at least in what was written.
@Jones Indiana - The "irrational fear" is not of COVID, it's of getting it from a piece of equipment that only you have handled.
Everyone should be wearing masks, everyone should be social distancing because it IS serious. But all of this crap about disinfecting phones and cameras is hygiene theater/fearmongering for profit. Fomites are not the predominant mode of transmission of this virus, especially with items that aren't being shared between multiple people.
@Grimstod- maybe you are. There's definitively a DNA aspect to this plus current health. Some people carry it and are asymptomatic. That doesn't make it any less dangerous in general.
@hikerdoc No damage means no warranty voiding. I knocked an E-30 off a log into a pond once. It was a non-weather sealed model but Olympus repaired under warranty. I did pay $18 for shipping to NJ but no repair costs. Off all the manufactures I have dealt with they are among the best with service/repair.
aerosols are indeed much more of influence to get infected (this is something else than that you carry some of the virus on your fingers, face or even in your nose (saliva) or for example on your camera body.
- wear always a mask in (badly ventilated) rooms, especially with a lot of persons. - keep (without a mask) enough distance at least 1.5 - 2 meters also outside form other persons.
@TomHudsonVisual: > “Covid19 remains viable on surfaces for up to three days.”
Please support this by a reference. AFAIK, currently there is no way to test VIABILITY of the virus. All the papers I saw would measure RNA presence, not viability.
@ ilza- the point to really look at is what does it matter if the virus remains on surfaces for X amount of days if the science shows that the amount of virus on a surface has to be so immense (like a bucket of it) to be enough to be infectious, and someone has to expose themselves to it so completely (like coating their entire palm of their hand in it and licking and repeating this 8 times before they can get infected)?
That's the point it's not that it remains on a surface, it's what amount and what amount of exposure do you have to have before it's infectious.
This is why the CDC and WHO say in answer to the question can you get it from a surface? "Maybe". Maybe? "Yes, maybe, we have no f'n idea." No science, no case studies?" "Nope, none", so what's this based on? "Basically all our guideance is based on just how long it lives, not about transmission" Sounds like most of your guidance falls under the category of "We don't know, but better safe than sorry?" CDC -"yes exactly."
I read the paper associated to this letter carefully when it appeared (and it is what I had in mind in my original message). AFAIR, their test specimen had nothing to do with viability — no matter how they call it. (And in my book, calling anything done “in vitro” viability would be a misnomer. However, of course this may be a set in stone term between specialists…)
All comments I saw about this paper from specialists (which I’m not!) was that it was a glorified RNA test.
I once took my E-M5 (mark I) to a muddy subfloor area under a flooded house to take pictures of the problem. It got fairly muddy afterwards as I had to crawl through some areas with only 2 feet clearance. First, I took the battery out just in case and I recommend that before any soaking. I washed it under the tap, pointing the lens down and brushing with an old toothbrush as a gentle stream of water ran over it and its kit lens (12-50mm, which is also WR). I would never use any soap or any solvent however, as I worry not only about leakage but also the rubber gaskets etc getting hardened or damaged. Nothing happened after it was wiped and then dried in the shade outside for 2 days. The camera is now 8 years old and is still working perfectly all these years. I don't think I would do it again however, unless there is a genuine need for such a drastic action.
Sample variation is the culprit. I remember when Robin Wong first tested the E-M5 around a pond (not washing or splashing water on it), his EVF also got fogged and he was scratching his head since it's supposed to be sealed (all recorded in his review video).
Looks like a video inspired by Pentax. A few years back , there were videos showing Pentax cameras used by US military in Afghanistan, showing Pentax cameras and lenses under sand, dust and water. Something similar with mud and then shower was shown on the Pentax K1 a few years later. Never seen such things done on a Canon, Nikon, and even less on Sony.
Perhaps Canon and Nikon have chosen not to encourage users to perform procedures that invalidate the warranty. Note that the Olympus warranty classifies exposure to sand and fluids as negligence and voids the warranty. This is simply a promotion to allow JIP to avoid warranty service costs! Ricoh does not cover the damage either on their Pentax models. https://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/repair_pdfs/warranty_info.pdf
your camera and len maybe rugged and keep shooting during the rain, dusty but what the point when the front element is too foggy and dirty, the result of poor quality photo and it will hurt your pixel ego?! Digital cameras are disposable, unless you have unatural emotional attach, you will replace the one you using for newer model after 1-2 years....
My digital camera replacement cycle for primary use model is six years. I still shoot digitals as old as my Olympus Camedia E10, the CCD sensor and fantastic optics of which still produce iPhone humbling images in good light, when using the long end of said M. Zuiko optics.
We were shown how to clean grocery products because of FEAR. Now cameras follow. I heard more people complaining about skin rashes after using disinfectants too often what media recommended to do. Now we will see more people complaining about damaged camera gear after this I bet.
So you come home at the end of a shoot. What else gets the treatment, The tripod? The camera bag? The strobe? Your shoes? If you've used multiple lenses they'll have to get the treatment too. And then you can go and take a shower. Where do you draw the line?
After doing some research I found hypochlorous acid, which is effective against microorganisms and viruses including Covid-19. It is non-toxic and non-corrosive. Consumer-grade HOCL is between 200-300 ppm (parts per million).
The stuff is so mild (it can be diluted) that it is used on open wounds in hospitals and as a mouthwash in dentists offices. Its pH is in the neutral-range 6.1-6.8, while bleach is highly alkaline pH 12.
I had not considered using it on cameras, etc. But in the next post I will quote a study, with a link to the source paper. I am going to do some further research on the subject.
We use N100-equivalent masks with refillable internal filters. We can disinfect all exterior/internal surfaces with the solution. Now we can use the filters for their entire useful life.
"Serial applications of on-site, electrolytically generated aerosols of HOCl provided exceptional hygienic control in surgical facilities, with no detectable adverse effects on a variety of electronic devices exposed routinely over the study period (Rainina et al., 2012)."
Apparently you did not read anything beyond that point because hypochlorous acid is nothing like "bleach water."
I also did not recommend using it on cameras as I have not researched its use on such items. However, in medical settings it is used on and around various electronic devices without adverse side-effects. (See my second post above.)
I provided links to reputable science-based articles for those who want to take the time to find out more about this particular disinfectant. There is a lot of additional info available online that I have not cited.
I hope that anyone who is looking for a proven disinfectant will take advantage of the information I have posted vs. listening to someone who knows nothing about the topic. It may not turn out to be appropriate for use on cameras but it is used to effectively disinfect a wide variety of things without harming them.
I assume that many of us are interested in disinfecting all kinds of things without harming them or ourselves.
Perhaps you have a PhD in chemistry but for some strange reason you insist on conflating chlorine with hypochlorous acid. (You also keep implying that I recommend using HOCL on cameras when I haven't but that's another issue.)
HOCL and chlorine (NaOCL) have very different chemical formulas. Chlorine is very alkaline having a pH of 11+2. Hypochlorous acid has a pH in the neutral range.
It requires a LOT more bleach to achieve the same disinfectant power as hypochlorous acid. The order of magnitude depends on the microbe but HOCL is so gentle it is used in eye and wound care where chlorine would never be suggested as an option. The safety profile of hypochlorous acid is considerably more benign compared to chlorine.
@TomHudsonVisual I've had some time to look into the use of HOCL and electronic devices. 200 ppm and lower dilution is safe around electronics (they should be powered off). Unlike chlorine, HOCL does not require rinsing after application. It quickly breaks down when exposed to light and air. The length of time HOCL requires to disinfect surfaces depends on its dilution, with 10 minutes generally being the longest period of time at the lowest concentrations (less than 30 ppm). HOCL can be used on many different hard and soft surfaces. I have yet to find any surface that it is adversely affected.
Samsung recommends HOCL for cleaning its Galaxy smartphones.
Chlorine dissolves readily in water forming hydrochloric and hypochlorous (HOCl) acids, which as we know is a very corrosive mixture. (It's the so-called "chlorine water" mentioned earlier.) A neutral pH solution of isolated HOCL is non-corrosive, so it can even be used on stainless steel. Conversely, chlorine disinfectants used on type 304 and 361 stainless steel can be a corrosion hazard down to a residual level of 2 ppm in crevices.
Alkaline substances aren't added to bleach for grease-cutting purposes (with the exception of drain cleaner - which is not bleach any more but a different product, and in that case NaOH IS added for grease cutting) - alkaline substances are added to increase the shelf life of the product (since in an acidic environment, the NaOCl will rapidly decompose, emitting gaseous chlorine)
The main problem with HOCl is, similarly, shelf life and stability, which is why it generally needs to be made on-premises via electrolysis.
Until recently it has not been possible to create hypochlorous acid in a stable solution with a usable shelf life. Hypochlorous acid generated from dissolving dry calcium hypochlorite has a shelf life of approximately four hours, therefore has not been suitable for use in pharmaceutical or healthcare environments.
Advances in chlorine chemistry have made possible a stabilized solution based on calcium hypochlorite. It has a shelf life of up to 24 months. The product should be kept away from light and heat for best results.
Professions such as hospitals that use a large quantity of HOCL can purchase on-site HOCL generators. But there are also up to 250 gallon units of stabilized HOCL available.
I see what you did there Oly.... Flexing before closure xD :D Jokes aside this is stupid honestly and that guy under the shower with camera... REALLY???? why not just came under the water cccc.... again stupid... dont do it like this just clean it like a person with a brain ;)
This is insane, and wrong. Soap (in these quantities) should NEVER be used to wash electronics, protected or not (or at least - protected with a rating similar to the one stated by Olympus). Soap water penetrates deeper and will go around gaskets that would otherwise stop water intrusion. I've killed phones (way better protected than a camera) washing them with soap water (not more than what this guy us using), and they died miserably within minutes.
Ever since the EM-1 this has been the way to clean an Olympus camera. They are light years ahead on weather proofing. Made for the worst weather available.
There is no real evidence that the virus is spread from surfaces, and even from touching eyes or face. This is an assumption. There is evidence that it is spread by infected droplets in the air inhaled in sufficient quantity to cause an infection, which will vary from person to person. Disinfecting a camera should be down on the list of things to do.
The conjunctiva allows a much, much easier access for microbes to your body than virtually any other exposed tissue. If somebody sneezes on your camera and you're loathe to scrub it, I'd recommend at least not using it for a few days to let virus cells on it die off. Using UV light or ozone is optional, but in many cases, they're actually more prone to damage your camera than wiping its surface with disinfectant.
Determining acceptable personal risk when dealing with a highly contagious and potentially fatal virus like Covid-19 is a very different thing than going outside to make a photo. Even if a person survives a severe infection of the disease, it is very possible that they will suffer from myriad disabilities, in some cases for the rest of their life.
Unfortunately, the morons who insist on not taking Covid-19 seriously aren't just a risk to themselves. . .
Maybe this will inspire Sony to provide company recommended instructions on sensor cleaning beyond using a blower or taking it to a shop, which is often impossible. Swabs, arctic butterfly, dust grabbers, sticky pads - which is best. Leica sponsored a cleaning video which advised against blowers?
@Karroly: We explicitly stated this is effectively an ad. And just because it's an advertisement doesn't mean the information in it isn't of value to our readers.
I just put a mask on my camera when it's hanging on my neck. Remember the CDC and WHO has no evidence that Covid-19 can be transmitted via any surfaces - airborne remember?
You guys with your panties all bunged up should read your own quotes - "LITTLE EVIDENCE", doesn't mean there is factual proven evidence that it spreads via contact with surfaces, it means there is LITTLE EVIDENCE that it spreads via contact with surfaces. VERY LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE means little chance and the CDC and WHO have no definitive evidence to show it has been spread via surface contact.
Why do you think it was so newsworthy when 230 scientists submitted their paper to the CDC to emaphisize that the evidence shows Covid-19 is an airborne illness not a contact based one, and that preventitive measures should be focused on airborne solutions and stop wasting resources on the rabbit hole of surface contact?
My statement is 100% accurate - CDC and WHO has no evidence that Covid-19 can be transmitted via any surfaces, no evidence at all.
Post your factual study by the CDC or the WHO on the proof they have that it spreads via surface contact. MAYBE and POSSIBLY is not the same.
"If you touch an infected surface, like a door handle or a camera used by someone else, and then touch your face, then you can get infected yourself..."
Unless your face just became a mucous membrane there is ZERO chance of infection by contact with the skin of your face. Again ZERO evidence according to the CDC and WHO that skin to skin allows infection. I don't make this stuff up people it's fully published for anyone to read instead of running around with your heads cut off like chicken little
Ever wonder why the virus is so prevalent in the states, read through the comments of stories like this and I don't think you will have ANY questions after.
@Tazz93 Get used to the virus, it isn't going away. NZ 102 days virus free, bam, it's back with a vengence. There is no way to remove this from the planet, as soon as you open up any economy or society the virus will be there.
Vaccine is a mislabelled meaning, not going to stop you from getting it, only lessen the severity. You can bury your head in the sand with stupid stuff like washing your camera and pretending it's just a matter of time before we get rid of this thing, or face the facts that we are all going to be living with Covid-19 for a long, long time, likely forever.
And if that's the case unless you plan on living in 10% unemployement, hiding in your house for the rest of your life, sooner or later it's going to be time to accept a world with Covid and dealing with it as a risk based assessment with risk based tiered policies to pick and choose from just like every other disease. Some things are going to be smart to do and others will be thrown by the wayside.
@mfinley, I agree with much of that. I'm wouldn't blow sunshine up someone's rear end for the sake of making someone feel better. At best, treatments to cut or eliminate the fatalities is likely the best case scenario. But to completely close your mind to the most obvious ideologies seems...well, not so prudent. Proven or not....and that brings me back to my first statement, "Ever wonder why..."?
mfinley, I wrote "touch your face" to make it short. But face includes lips, mouth and eyes. Some people also suck their pen or the branch of their glasses...
@tazz93 " At best, treatments to cut or eliminate the fatalities is likely the best case scenario."
That's likely exactly the path. I can tell you it's already well on the way in the USA. Here in Colorado we were at 700 cases a day and 40 deaths a day in April, we all did the shelter in place thing and brought it down to 100 cases a day, reopened the economy in June and we were back to 700 cases a day in a short time, but the big difference was only 1-4 deaths a day., not 40.
The future is not going to be zero infections, its going to be infections but minimal deaths probably down below Influenza's 60,000 deaths in the USA a year.
It has to go to risk management for high-risk groups and the rest is life as usual.
To run around continuing with policies that have no scientific evidence of being meaningful as we did in Feb-April are not going to do anything other than give hypochondriacs some peace of mind, but delay the social end to this pandemic as it will be the way it ends.
We're not quite up to "Democrat hoax" level of denial in this thread, but.. Coronavirus can be spread via surfaces. It's not the most common vector, but it *is still a vector* and I notice the countries that erred on the side of science and caution are all much farther along in containment efforts than in "Oh, they're saying that it will just go away in April" country, aka the good ole' US of A.
@mR bolton Yes, and once you have had it you can not get it again... oops that didn't work out... well, once you have had it you can't get it for 6 months... oops that didn't work out... well once you have had it you can't get it for 3 months... oops...
A scientifically insignificant sample with no case study of someone saying they got Covid off a toilet seat in a truck stop doesn't mean covid is meaningfully transmitted via surfaces. Scientists with actual case studies have proven that transmission is via respitory transfer. But wear a plastic bubble suit for the next 5 years if its what makes you happy.
You can wipe your car door handle and door knob to your front door too, the amount of precautions is endless that you can add to your routine if it makes you happy, it still doesn't mean that it's meaningfully protective in anyway but for many that doesn't seem to be the point.
They used to wear garlic cloves to protect themselves from the black plague too.
@mfinley: > “VERY LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE means little chance”
So THIS is your expert opinion?! You think that chance appears and disappears as evidence is gathered or refuted?
> “My statement is 100% accurate - CDC and WHO has no evidence that Covid-19 can be transmitted via any surfaces, no evidence at all.”
Can you please supply quote from somebody trustworthy who would say the same? Especially given that CDC and WHO say exactly the opposite (which you QUOTED)?!
You guys must be super old and super bored with your bunker living and your well-worn disinfectant sitting next to your mouse just in case, to get so reactive to something as simple as my earlier statement. Glad I gave you something to do. Now go wipe down your front sidewalk and porch somebody sneezed while walking their dog in front of your house.
"It’s probably more than we have come to terms with the reality that flippantly spouting misinformation in the footsteps of rightwing propaganda and the president has resulted in additional avoidable deaths of tens of thousands of Americans."
The CDC and WHO are right-wing propagandists? Bastards!
Geez, Tom.. it's like you actually read about science or something versus what our favorite stable genius is telling us. You probably didn't even inject any fish tank chemicals just to be on the safe side..
i'd be careful and read your olympus warranties carefully, water damage will void your warranty and i know for the EM1 MKII it tells you NOT to put the camera under running water in a supplement about weather sealing
I vaguely remember the Olympus junket where every journalist was given a camera they soaked in rain and salt water for a few days. Was that in Iceland? Not one complained about weather sealing, just the opposite. Every review had a picture of a soaked Olympus and raved about how well it was built . That was gutsy marketing you have to respect.
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Global shutters, that can read all their pixels at exactly the same moment have been the valued by videographers for some time, but this approach has benefits for photographers, too.
We had an opportunity to shoot a pre-production a9 III camera with global shutter following Sony's announcement this week. This gallery includes images captured with the new 300mm F2.8 GM OSS telephoto lens and some high-speed flash photos.
The Sony a9 III is a ground-breaking full-frame mirrorless camera that brings global shutter to deliver unforeseen high-speed capture, flash sync and capabilities not seen before. We delve a little further into the a9III to find out what makes it tick.
The "Big Four" Fashion Weeks – New York, London, Milan and Paris - have wrapped for 2023 but it's never too early to start planning for next season. If shooting Fashion Week is on your bucket list, read on. We'll tell you what opportunities are available for photographers and provide some tips to get you started.
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