Switched from canned air to a compressor for lens cleaning and never looked back

Used to spend $8 a can on that dust-off stuff and go through 3 cans a week cleaning sensor dust and mirror boxes. Finally bought a little 2 gallon compressor from Harbor Freight for $45 last year, best move I made. The canned air would leave residue sometimes and I swear it made my fingers cold as hell. Now I just blast everything with dry air from the tank, no chemicals touching anything. Anyone else ditch the cans or am I the only one who got sick of wasting money?

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pat_coleman17d ago

Made my fingers cold as hell" is exactly why I stopped using that stuff too. Compressor is just way more practical for the long run. You're not crazy for switching, that's just common sense.

derek99417d ago

Ha, I don't know man. I still use the canned stuff and it's really not that bad. Yeah sure your fingers get a little cold, but it takes like 30 seconds to blow off a sensor. I feel like buying a whole compressor for that is overkill unless you're cleaning lenses like ten times a day. And @pat_coleman, I get the appeal of not buying new cans every week, but at $8 a can going through three a week? That's $24 a week, which is like what, $1200 a year? That's a lot of dust. I clean my sensor maybe once every three months with one can that lasts me half a year. Maybe your camera is just dirtier than mine or something.