Digital Survival Kit - Sensor Swab Type 3 w/ Eclipse Cleaner

by Photographic Solutions

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001F0ICZO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #73 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Cleaners > Cleaning Kits
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 28, 2008

Product Description

Kit contains 4 Sensor Swabs, 10 PEC*PADs, 1 e-wipe packet, 0.5 fl. oz. Eclipse and a jet black nylon zippered travel pouch.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, May 2, 2010

By 

S. Garvey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Survival Kit - Sensor Swab Type 3 w/ Eclipse Cleaner (Electronics)

I used this kit to clean up the sensor on a Canon 5D DSLR and it worked great. I used two of the swabs and followed the directions and there are no traces of dirt now. Highly recommended

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great!, October 16, 2011

By 

JCMegabyte (JCMDI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Digital Survival Kit - Sensor Swab Type 3 w/ Eclipse Cleaner (Electronics)

I bought this product to remove the dust from my Canon 5D Mk2's full-frame sensor, and was successful on the very first use. The swabs included are just the right size to wipe the sensor from left to right and back, safely and completely. The swabs also worked well on a Nikon D5100's smaller APS-C sensor when wiped top-to-bottom.

As a side note - most DSLR cameras have a low-pass optical filter over the sensor, so that is what you will be wiping the dust from, not the sensor itself...

The kit comes in a fairly high quality zippered soft case with lots of room for other small stuff, and includes a bottle of Eclipse cleaning fluid (.5 fl oz, which is actually quite a lot), a sealed pack of "PEC" cleaning pads, and 4 "prepared" swabs, each of which is sealed in plastic and ready for use.

Each swab is plastic and spatula-shaped, with what appears to be a PEC pad, carefully cut, wrapped and rubber-banded in place around the flat end. The swabs are said not to be reusable after a single use, although it may be possible to cut, wrap, and rubber-band in place a fresh PEC pad onto the plastic spatula, if one could do so without contaminating it before use. I have not tried this (yet), but I may at some point.

In any case, this kit works quite well and could prove very economical if the swabs can be "re-prepared" with fresh PEC pads and used over and over. Otherwise, a fresh pack of prepared swabs will be needed when the 4 provided swabs are used-up, which can be a little pricy although far less expensive and much more convenient than having the camera sensor cleaned professionally.

Cheers!
JC Megabyte / Technician
JCM Digital Imaging