Author: | | New Member Registered: June, 2007 Location: St-Petersburg, Russia Posts: 2 3 users found this helpful | Review Date: May 6, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $45.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | Cleans the sensor without any liquid, no marks, blotchiness etc. left | Cons: | a bit scary to touch sensor with it. Unable to remove very hard/sticky dust. Cleaning sheets are easy to contaminate with the dust from the air. | | I like this stuff. It consists of a stick with a piece of some gum at the top, and a notebook of adhesive sheets. You touch(even press) the dusty sensor, dust glues to the gum. Then you clean the gum touching the sheet. When sheet is not clean no more, you take another one. No danger to soak something inside your camera.
Got it 4 years ago and it is still in use and have half of cleaning sheets left. I use it with my cameras, and clean sensors for my friends also. I take it to all my trips, as you catch a lot of dust exchanging optics on the streets.
It perfectly removes regular dust, but if something got stuck on the sensor, you gonna need a bigger boat- wet system. This happened to me only once. Also, sticky sheet becomes more dusty from the air than from the cleaning stick.
There is a perfect video on youtube showing how to use this kit.
It is also very economical, I will hardly spend the rest of my notebiik in next 2 years.
Total score is 9 -- it is robust, self-contained and always ready. Real Pentax | | | | | Pentaxian Registered: April, 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Posts: 18,076 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: May 8, 2012 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | It's what my local French B&M photo shop uses ... | Cons: | Expensive, like everything, in France ... | | Bonjour,
I would agree with about all of the first review of this product ... and as I mentioned above, this is what my local photo shop uses which says a lot! Salut, John le Frog | | | | Junior Member Registered: March, 2011 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 34 2 users found this helpful | Review Date: November 28, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $45.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | It works! | Cons: | Cost; a bit of trepedation using it the first time! | | I started having some blotches on pictures with plenty of sky, so I used the K5's dust mapping and found that there was a remarkable amount of dust along one edge. After looking at reviews of various systems, I bought a Gotto Rocket blower and the Pentax cleaning kit. I tried the blower first and it did help a little, but it also moved some of the dust around! So I got up the nerve to use this 'gumdrop on a stick' and voila! The dust was gone! I have used it one other time this weekend and with one touch of the sensor the offending dust was gone.
While I was not too keen on touching the sensor with something that sticks a bit to it, it does the trick. And I feel better about this than using something that requires not only touching the sensor but using liquids as well!
BTW, the Gotto also does come in handy. I use it whenever I change lenses just to clean off the back of the lens so that there is less chance of dust getting in during the swap, so I like having both around. But if you have dust on your sensor, I do recommend the Pentax kit as the first thing to get. And read the instructions thoroughly before the first use!
| | | | Pentaxian Registered: December, 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 1,543 2 users found this helpful | Review Date: August 22, 2013 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Works | Cons: | Sticker shock | | This works, is easy to use, safe for the sensor and your sensor stays clean for a long time after use. Price seemed high, but the kit will last many years.
100% recommended. | | | | | New Member Registered: January, 2013 Posts: 1 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: December 15, 2013 | Recommended | Price: $59.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | THE tool for the job | Cons: | Price | | The UK this cost me £36 (aprox $59 us ) 3 or 4 months ago. I have tried several solutions to removing sensor dust. Never been happy with any until I tried this. It quite simply works every time with no hassle.
| | | | Veteran Member Registered: October, 2007 Location: France Posts: 804 2 users found this helpful | Review Date: February 23, 2014 | Recommended | Price: $40.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | Efficient on dust and particles, safe for sensor | Cons: | Not efficient on oil spot (but I never encountered one) | | The must have item to clean your sensor. Widely used by Professional to clean Canon an Nikon sensor too
Efficient on dust only, leaves the sensor clean without any risk of leaving unwanted residue of cleaning stuff.
Note that the principle of this kit is to stick dust particles on the cleaner, that's why it is not efficient on oïl. BUT during normal usage of a DSLR camera, only dust particle may enter the camera when you are changing lenses. I never encountered oïl spot (I never had a nikon, though)
| | | | Senior Member Registered: June, 2011 Location: Gotland Posts: 169 2 users found this helpful | Review Date: December 9, 2014 | Recommended | Price: $30.00
| Rating: 9 |
Pros: | Actually works | Cons: | A bit costly but worth it | | I had a very persistent problem, small (pollen?) grains as welded to the sensor. I tried a small blower with no effect. A bigger one that gave some help. Then I took a deep breath and followed Internet tips on wet cleaning. A homemade wooden spatel (yes, wooden, Nikon uses wooden spatels) and French Optinett wet tissues had some effect. Same spatel with microfiber cloth and propyl alcohol also had some effect but left lint. Then I tried distilled water instead. The sensor got cleaner but those stubborn particles were still there.
Then I tried the Pentax kit. Bought from Microglobe London, fine service.
This item actually worked! It took three passes to get the sensor 99,5% clean. (The dust warning system in my K5 sees nothing, but a test photo f/22 and a lot of Photoshop curves shows a couple of small spots.)
A very good sensor cleaner. Best in my test.
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