DSLR camera cleaning

[user_of_gnomes]

Any owners of DSLR camera's here? How do you keep the mirror clean?

[tgalati4]

I used to use a flat, foam swab and some lens cleaning solution. I'm sure there are some youtube videos on how to do it. Unless a child squirted ketchup on the mirror, I would leave it alone. Unless it is really interfering with the camera's exposure or image-capture, I would leave it alone. Blowing dust and fluid around the inside is generally bad.

[coffeecat]

Art & Design?

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[user_of_gnomes]

I used to use a flat, foam swab and some lens cleaning solution. I'm sure there are some youtube videos on how to do it. Unless a child squirted ketchup on the mirror, I would leave it alone. Unless it is really interfering with the camera's exposure or image-capture, I would leave it alone. Blowing dust and fluid around the inside is generally bad.

What cleaning solution did you use?

I've got a few specks on my mirror and I could get it "professionally" cleaned (and I probably will) but I'm still thinking of cleaning it myself. Can always get it cleaned after I mess it up is what I'm thinking.


Art & Design?

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I would have sworn that I saw "photography" in a description somewhere!

[robsoles]

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Can always get it cleaned after I mess it up is what I'm thinking.

...Just my 2 cents: Messed up enough this could turn quite expensive, unless I had supreme confidence that I would definitely not damage anything worse than just not being able to remove some final mark(s) from the mirror, without doing anything risky, I would err towards professional cleaning.

[tgalati4]

I use Pentax lens cleaning solution. 100% isopropol or a decent lens cleaner solution should do it. Don't use too much, just moist enough to loosen the dirt. Then use a clean microfiber cloth around a Q-Tip to buff clean.