How to clean your camera, so they live longer!

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Cameras are often exposed to extreme conditions. They work as long as they should if they are thoroughly cleaned after each major operation. This guide presents practical accessory for the camera care - and shows what you have to do with them.

The summer holidays are often a test of endurance for cameras: the equipment must withstand wind and weather, to make long trips in the pocket and sometimes even in a hot glove compartment of the car to be left behind. It gets really dangerous for the sensitive equipment when they are fried on the beach with fine sand or served with freshly oiled hands.

Here we provide you with practical accessories for the camera to maintain and provide tips on how to deal with this problem:

1. Carry your camera always in an exact matching, padded bag - this will avoid scratches.

2. Take the camera to the beach, keep them in a resealable plastic bag from the drugstore to - effectively protect it against sand and water.

Clean housing

If the casing of your camera is only slightly dirty or dusty, you can clean it easily with a damp microfiber. That's not even in the drugstore for a dollar. It is more difficult, if determined after a beach holiday Sandoder dust particles in the crevices of the control buttons have. With luck, you can remove it with a bristle brush. Mend it but with a special broom bristles, so the dust sticks to it.

The apparatus is equipped with a sticky material - such as leftover food, or suntan oil - contaminated? You should wipe off as soon as possible because it can attack the coating of the housing. Particularly well suited for isopropyl alcohol (70%) solution, which is sold in every pharmacy. Dampen thus a microfiber cloth and gently rub the affected area to clean it. For hard to reach areas that are soaked in isopropyl alcohol, use a pointy cotton swab. Which are offered in many drugstore markets under the name "cosmetic sticks".

Clean Lens

With most compact cameras, the lens moves during zooming and focusing on the front of the housing. If the sand grains gets inside the cracks between the lens, then the lens block to a permanent defect. Usually an anti-static ranges from brush can be used to remove the particles.

If dirt has been deposited on the front lens, the image quality suffers. Streaks are visible in photographs, or images seem blurred. The lenses are protected with modern cameras with a special coating so that they do not scratch easily. Sand grains can be still removed by dabbing with a cloth from the optic. Next, rub it in any case, otherwise there will be scratches on the lens.

Then wipe the surface with a lens-cleaning cloth (that are available on the photo shops or opticians) and clean it. Do not use detergent and alcohol, because it uses the lens of coating. Especially handy for cleaning lenses on can use "lens pen" (which is available for ten euros at a photo retailers).

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First aid in moisture

If your camera has fallen into the water, there is concern that it has taken this irreparable loss. But even an ordinary rainstorm can have serious consequences. If the unit had contact with salt water, you should first rinse it with tap water.

Then, open all doors and openings, and remove the battery and memory card. Leave the camera open on a warm, dry place until it is completely dried. Take the camera to the manufacturer immediately to repair it.

Battery care

If your camera is not used for a while, you should fully charge the battery before. This increases its life span. If you have a camera that is powered by standard batteries, take them out prior to storage, absolutely. With modern batteries, the discharge hazard is not excluded. Discontinued Battery fluid can damage the camera.

Digital Camera Sensor Dust Cleaning

When changing lenses on the SLR, dust can get into the camera. Many models are now built with cleaning systems. Ensure, through the undulation of the filter mounted in front of the sensor that can be used to shake off dust particles. Stubborn dirt can be removed but not so. There are various tools to remove dust from the sensor. No matter which cleaning method you choose, you must thereby note the following:

1. Find out first whether there is dust on the sensor - which makes question is not noticeable at all photos. Set up the camera for a test shot on a uniformly bright surface, such as at the blue sky. Set the lowest possible aperture and manual focus by ensuring that the subject is ill-taken. Alternatively, you could take a test shot with the lens lifted.

Please provide as many photos. Do you see that patch, which always appear at the same place, which is a clear indication of dust. Solve itself after repeated use of the cleaning function, thus cleaning the sensor.

2. Clean the sensor only in a clean, windless and dust-free environment as possible.

3. To get the sensor to achieve, the folding mirror of the camera should be permanently in its open position. Read the chapter on "sensor cleaning" in the manual of your camera. Since the mirror is maintained by electrical energy in the upper position and the cleaning for some time takes up, the battery must be fully charged in your camera.

4. After you have folded up the mirror, take off the lens from the camera. Clean the sensor gently using one of the tools featured in the photos. The sensitive surface, you should put in no case with any "home remedies" to the body. Also spray cans of compressed air are not suitable for sensor cleaning. In the photo trade there are compressed air cans that you can use with careful use of the sensor cleaning.

5. Try first a "dry" cleaning method. Only if that does not lead to the desired success, you should try it with cleaning fluid. Such improper use can also leave streaks.

6. Repeat after cleaning to ensure the test recording to ensure that the sensor is completely clean again.

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I've had a lens pen of about the last 18 months it's good for cleaning the lens "out in the field", but I wouldn't let it near the sensor!

The brush is useful for sweeping away dust, but If a lens needs cleaning I'd use pecpads and fluid if I've the opportunity. I've used the lens pen in the field, and it's clean, but if you go back after a day or two, you can see cleaning pattern on the lens, which using pads and fluid you won't see (never put fluid direct on a lens!).

Thanks !!!!