Delkin Devices DDSS-SINGLE SensorScope Includes bag

by Delkin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 10 inches ; 13.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RTKNDS
• Item model number: DDSS-SINGLE
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

SensorScope enables you to check your sensor to see if it needs cleaning-there's nothing safer than not cleaning your sensor. The SensorScope looks like a camera lens; however, it allows you to look back into your camera to inspect your sensor. The SensorScope is easily portable and provides a 5x magnification lens and 4 ultra bright LED lights, which are focused to completely illuminate the field of inspection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good Scope, shame about the kit..., July 16, 2007

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Alexander Barrie "Nurgle" (Brisbane Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delkin Devices DDSS-SINGLE SensorScope Includes bag (Electronics)

I found the swabbs have far to hard a heat sealed edge, and the cleaning fluid left streaks. The Vacuum unit had brissles that were stiff.. I would have through softer brissles as a sensor brush would have been the way. I would use a bad pun, and say that the mini-Vac "sucks" only it did not. well not trrong enough to pick up anything.. The only realy good part was the scope, which worked (surprisingly well) BUT the Button on mine was very stiff, and had to be held ON by force, and must be held on as this is not a push on push off button (only a momentary button) and this made working tough going, especialy when yu are working in such a delicate enviroment as this... (and why in this day and age cant people use standard AA or AAA's?)
Having said that, the scope did allow me to see dust that did not shop up in my photos, and with the aid of a different brand of sensor swabs, got to job done...
It would have been even better if you couldhave kept the sensor scope ON the camera while using the swab. Instead you have to view, the take the scope of, and swab, and then put the scope back to see the results... And a great many times till it is done... Back to the Drawing board I think... or make a stand of scope with a lighting ring that fits on the lens mount, so you can VIEW and Work at the same time... Sandy

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really poor design; a worthless product., October 28, 2007

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Steven Lang (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delkin Devices DDSS-SINGLE SensorScope Includes bag (Electronics)

The stiff, hard-to-hold momentary power switch and the oddball batteries would be bad enough. The real problem is that the fixed-focus depth-of-field loupe does NOT focus on my sensor.

Delkin claims they have designed the scope specifically to work with Canon and Nikon DSLRs. I have a Nikon D-200; with the Delkin scope I get a very sharp view of the perimeter of the mirror box, but down where it matters there is a blurred green rectangle. That is the sensor, and there is no way to adjust the the scope to focus on it. The only way I'll ever know it's dirty is by looking at ruined photographs.

Of course, I can just clean my sensor using my Visible Dust cleaning products (which work very well), but the whole idea of the SensorScope is to know when to clean and when NOT to clean, since cleaning should be avoided when unnecessary.

I attempted to give this product a no-star rating, but Amazon wouldn't let me do it...$50 wasted. It is irritating and mystifying to see a simple, good idea so poorly executed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars When is sound to good to be true - IT IS!!!, June 7, 2008

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Vladimir Avakyants "MALOY" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delkin Devices DDSS-SINGLE SensorScope Includes bag (Electronics)

I bought this toolkit yesterday from j&R! At first i thought it was very useful and actually worked. I have to say that the sales representative was very good with his selling skills =). So i fell for it.
When I read the manual and looked at everything inside i was like WOW this may actually work pretty good.
But when i got to use it, it was so terrible it is just unbelievable, especially for that kind of money.(i paid over 100$ for it)
The sensor scope is kinda useful, even though i actually have to aim with your eye at different angles to determine if there is any dust on your sensor.
The vacuum is totally useless. First of all the build quality is so cheap that the whole thing just falls apart when you touch it. Second of all the brush is not even soft and SCRATCHES your sensor!!! So don't even dare to use it.
Cleaning solution is pretty good, but the cleaning wands aren't very soft and the actual material that they use feels pretty rough IT MAY SCRATCH YOUR SENSOR so be careful. Also let me add the wands are probably for 35mm sensor, because they were to big for mine 22.2 x 14.8 mm digital rebel xti!

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS KIT TO ANYBODY. YOU ARE BETTER OFF BUYING JUST A CLEANING SOLUTION AND GOOD SENSOR WANDS.