The Sensor Brush family of products from Canadian company Visible Dust seem to be getting a lot of media attention at the moment. Now it’s the turn of Luminous Landscape’s Michael Reichmann to review this new product which cleans the sensor inside a digital SLR camera.

“But, what you do is spray compressed air (CO2) on one of the appropriately sized brushes called a Sensor Brush, for 10 seconds or so, and then wipe across the sensor with the brush. That’s it. If the crud is stubborn, then a second swipe can be done, after charging the brush again with compressed air (which makes it statically attractive). Blowing the brush bristles again after cleaning removes anything that’s been picked up.

The first time that I tried this was on my Canon 1Ds, which was pretty dirty at the time. Two passes, and it was clean. Not just somewhat clean. Not almost clean. But, totally clean! The first time that it has been so since the day that I took delivery of the camera over two years ago. I have subsequently cleaned other DSLRs sensors with equally impressive results.”

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