Check the gate!...

[Evin Grant]

For dust. This little goodie looks like a neat (and cheap) way to make sure your sensor is dust free before a lens change or after a take.
http://www.visibledust.com/prod_thumbnails/Sensor_Loupe_200x150.png
http://www.visibledust.com/products.php?PID=3

[Don Woods]

Thats cool Evin and at under a 100 why the hell not get one just to play around with it. I think I might get one for the SLR's Good find thanks.

[casey warren]

I have the visiable dust sensor cleaner and it works like a charm. I expect their other products to be made/and function just as well.

[Martin Drew]

Although maybe a little bit of dust crept in just after you checked it but before you mounted the lens. Doh! better take the lens off one more time and check...

M

[damonbots]

Although maybe a little bit of dust crept in just after you checked it but before you mounted the lens. Doh! better take the lens off one more time and check...

M

OCD and sensors don't mix well!

Perhaps we need a micro RED inside the RED ONE to keep an eye on the sensor.

[KJames]

I am curious. Why are we taking methods invented for film and applying them for digital acquisition. To find dust on a sensor would seem to be a very easy problem to solve.

Some ideas are to light the sensor evenly with maybe LEDs and then have some integrated software do a test to check every pixel for the same signal.

Or you could eliminate dust all together by having a negative charged ring at the mount that would attract dust stronger than the sensor when you take off the lens and keep it off the sensor all together.

Or there is already one fan in the system to cool the sensors heat sink while not shooting. You could redirect air out through the lens mount so when you take the lens off you push all dust out of the housing and away from the sensor.

These are all good r&d test thats could be done simply and would probably add very little to the cost of production once a solution is found.

Don't worry I am not holding my breathe for a check in the mail. :)

[Evin Grant]

The dust issue is not a killer but this simple device will give us piece of mind for those instances and environments it may be a problem. Cleaning, or at least dusting the sensor should be a fairly easy 30 second operation.

[Jarred Land]

I personally use the delkin sensorscope every time I shoot the Red.. it works great and fits in the PL mount perfectly.

Avoid the same companies sensor swabs though.. they are totally crap.

[damonbots]

Jarred,

What are you using to clean the Mysterium besides Windex and a brillo pad?
The thought of swabbing my RED ONE's sensor makes my crotch hurt.

BTW- The Sensor Loupe™ looks pretty cool. Too bad VisibleDust insists on badmouthing their competition. Not a good business strategy IMO.

[Alexander Nikishin]

I personally use the delkin sensorscope every time I shoot the Red.. it works great and fits in the PL mount perfectly.

Avoid the same companies sensor swabs though.. they are totally crap.

How often have you had to clean the sensor? How many outings or which outings in particular caused the dirty sensor situation?

[tj williams]

strange how prices rise as soon as it's for photography>

http://www.firststreetonline.com/product.jsp?id=50896

[Jason Francois]

How often have you had to clean the sensor? How many outings or which outings in particular caused the dirty sensor situation?
Clever ploy Alexander. :)

[Jarred Land]

first of all.. you dont really clean the sensor, the sensor is sealed and protected, you clean the protective IR filter in front of the sensor. I use sensorswabs.

You dont need to clean it everytime.. but when tanks are exploding and dirt and dust is being lobbed all around the camera, when you make a lens change there is a chance your gonna get a piece of something in there.

[Poi Boy]

war is hell.
-A

[damonbots]

first of all.. you dont really clean the sensor, the sensor is sealed and protected, you clean the protective IR filter in front of the sensor.


Don't condescend me, man

[Alexander Nikishin]

first of all.. you dont really clean the sensor, the sensor is sealed and protected, you clean the protective IR filter in front of the sensor. I use sensorswabs.


Sensor swabs like VisibleDust or?

[Poi Boy]

eventually you can't clean it anymore and the ir glass has to be replaced. hopefully the mysterium 2 will have a magic solution to do away with the problem for good.
Aloha
-A

[Alexander Nikishin]

Oh u mean these ones?

http://www.photosol.com/

[Paul Leeming]

For my Canon EOS camera I use the correct size SensorSwipe along with PecPads, as noted in great detail here:

http://www.pbase.com/copperhill/ccd_cleaning

Click on #3 in that link for a very detailed explanation of HOW to do it as well.

Never had a problem and I don't see any dust in my shots, so I'm completely satisfied it works as advertised. I can't imagine that cleaning the Red One will be much different; in fact, it'll probably be a bit easier without having to get around the mirror assembly etc. HTH

[Greg M]

I received the VisibleDust Sensor Loupe today, it is very nice. I am going to use it to clean my Canon 20D tonight.