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Loupe for sensor dust

Loupe for sensor dust

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Loupe for sensor dust

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- It is inevitable that from time to time you might find that there are some dust spots or other blemishes on your camera's sensor, especially if you're changing lens out in dusty or humid environments, for example. And that would mean that you need to clean your sensor, perhaps using swabs and a solution. If you're going to clean the camera yourself though, how do you really make sure that the sensor is clean? You can certainly capture a test photo, perhaps a test photo of a blank wall, for example, to get a sense of how much dust or other blemishes might be on that sensor to make sure, more importantly, that the sensor really is clean after you've cleaned it. But there is an easier way, and that is to use a loupe, a magnifying loupe, but not just any loupe, a loupe that has a built-in set of lights, in this case LED lights, so that you can illuminate the sensor and get a close look at it. So I'll go ahead and put my camera into sensor cleaning mode here, for example. And then that…

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