Sensor Swabs are designed for cleaning CCD chips and other delicate or hard to reach optical and imaging surfaces. Clean room manufactured and sealed, these swabs are the ultimate in purity.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Where would we be without them?:
I wish the camera did a better job of protecting itself from dust but it doesn't. And one thing I can't stand is being forced to pay someone for something that shouldn't be happening in the first place. So I do it myself. If you consider how much one or two of these swabs cost, about $3 each, and what I hear it costs to take the camera in, about $50 or so, these things are worth it. I have had to use them twice this year. And they work!
Highway robbery:
The only reason to buy these swabs is to keep the sticks and rewrap them with pecpads. You can also cut down a rubber spatular found at your cooking store and wrap it with the pec-pads. try that, it works very very well. kodak actually suggests using pec-pads on their sensors...well, they used to anyway before they quit makeing slrs.
Expensive but it works!:
I have been using this swab for my D200, D300 with 1.5x sensor as well as my D3 with full frame sensor. I realized that this is a jack of all trades. The bigger sensor swab (type 3) for d3 just doesn't work (too tight) as well as this....this is one sensor swab that could work with either a full frame sensor or a 1.5x/1.6x sensors....
Administer properly and be pleasantly amazed at results!:
After having used a few bursts of air via a can of Beseler Duster to attempt to remove small but visible particles from my Nikon D70's sensor, I noticed that the spray of ice-cold air left a powdery residue on the sensor. After quickly wiping the excess off with a dry cotton swab (not recommended EVER), I then hastily took a few test shots to ensure that the camera was still okay. All seemed to be well, that is, until I shot some snowy scenes with lighter exposed areas. Upon close inspection, I noticed that... more info
