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12/23/2004 02:18:17 PM · #1 |
| I have some dirty thing on my eyepiece, i say eyepiece because the dirt is not appearing on the photos, which is the best way to clean this? |
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12/23/2004 02:23:45 PM · #2 |
| Maybe it's on your mirror? |
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12/23/2004 02:24:37 PM · #3 |
and if it is how should i clean it?
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12/23/2004 02:25:39 PM · #4 |
I have the same problem. I see dirt when I look through the eyepeice..but there is nothing on my lens, I cleaned it and it is still there, so I cleaned my eyepeice and it's STILL THERE!! arg...so I'm guessing it's on that clear thing inside of my camera, because it's not showing up on my pictures. I am quite afraid to touch anything inside my camera.
I guess I'm going to take it too the camera store and let them do it.
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12/23/2004 02:25:47 PM · #5 |
You need to take it to a Laundrette :)
A bulb blower would do. Don't touch the mirror. |
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12/23/2004 02:40:06 PM · #6 |
or stop taking dirty pictures :)
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12/23/2004 02:40:38 PM · #7 |
It is probably on the focusing screen, which sits horizontally above the mirror. Whatever you do, don't touch it with anything, it is made of soft plastic and marks very easily - I speak from bitter experience on my EOS 300D. Just use a blower pointing above the mirror and hope for the best - it will not affect the photos you take.
Good Luck,
Hugh |
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12/23/2004 03:31:51 PM · #8 |
| I got some dirt on the mirror and focusing screen as well. Can sensor swabs be used on the mirror and focusing screen? |
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12/23/2004 04:26:51 PM · #9 |
A new clean swab should be OK on the mirror. The focus screen is difficult to get at and is easily damaged - I would not recommend trying to swab it and it shouldn't need it - a blower ought to be sufficient!
Hugh |
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12/23/2004 04:33:24 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by akshayvh:
I got some dirt on the mirror and focusing screen as well. Can sensor swabs be used on the mirror and focusing screen? |
I'd say sensor swabs would be a little over the top for doing the mirror/screen. Just based on the cost of them.
Wander into a camera shop and see what they've got for cleaning the mirror/screen on an SLR.. There's no difference between a dSLR and a film job when it comes to the cleaning of them, so there should be lots of options I would have thought. It's just the sensor on digital SLR's that is more difficult.
For my part I've used a 'spec grabber' from kinetronics on my 20D mirror to remove a bit of something, and the good-old blower for general dust. On my film SLR's I used to use small lens cleaning 'wands'. Cant' remember the brand/type but I got them from a camera shop for the job. For really stuborn bits I'd use lens cleaning fluid similar to eclipse on the same wands. They were basically a wad of lint-free paper/cloth material on the end of a soft/flexible plastic stick. Similar to the sensor-swabs but not $$ each...
BTW, I'm a chronic lens-swapper, so I probably get more than my fair share of dust in things. :-).
Cheers, Chris H.
Edit: Typo.
Message edited by author 2004-12-23 16:35:14.
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12/23/2004 06:58:54 PM · #11 |
Just a heads-up, if you can see the speck "in focus" thru the viewfinder, it is on the focusing screen. You won't see anything smaller than a boulder on the mirror, since it's way out of focus.
You will not be able to remove any dust from the focus screen that is on the top, or eyepiece, side.
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12/23/2004 08:46:19 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Corwyn:
Maybe it's on your mirror? |
Yeah, that threw me a while ago. Whacking great speck, didn't appear on the photos so I thought it had to be on the eyepiece. No amount of cleaning removed it ....
Then I thought ... "oh yeah, mirror!" and problem solved :)
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