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Has anybody done this on a consumer or profession DSLR like the Nikon D70
or D80?
I know this is a little off topic, but I'm far more hesitant to try
cleaning these than I've been with TV tube and cooled CCD cameras. (In
the old days we used freon like it was water and it worked really well!)
-Michael
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> The First Contact product works wonderfully well on extended surfaces such
> as glass flats, mirrors and prisms. I have used it on a number of CCD
> windows very successfully.
>
> You may be so impressed with the results that you are tempted to clean a
> microscope objective - DON'T. If it seeps up into the lens assembly
> you risk permanently "locking" the last lens element. The surface,
> however, will be very clean!
>
> Perhaps it is possible to clean an objective lens, but be sure to speak
> with customer service at Photonic Cleaning first.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Chris Tully <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal I have seen a
> product called First Contact made by Photonics Cleaning used by the
> factory reps from Q-Imaging to clean their demo ccd cameras and been
> extremely impressed. This stuff is very similar to rubber cement. You
> paint it on to the surface to be cleaned, embed a paper tab in it and
> wait a few minutes. then peel off the cleaning cement and it will strip
> off finger prints, dust etc.
>
> http://www.photoniccleaning.com/
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> I have done this in the past with cotton-tipped applicators and methanol.
> I dislike doing this because it is difficult to get all the dust off. You
> simply need to start in the center of the sensor and in a circular pattern
> move from the center to the edge. You will need to repeat this many times
> using a new applicator each time until the sensor window is clean. Use
> very little methanol on the cotton tip. It seems it is partly by luck when
> you can get it entirely dust free. I have not found canned air to be
> useful for this purpose.
> Good luck,
>
> Brian D Armstrong PhD
> Light Microscopy Core Manager
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> Subject: cleaning CCD window
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> We have a Coolsnap FX mono behind a Sutter
> lambda-10 emission filter wheel, that is used for epifluorescence
> microscopy.
>
> From time to time I check illumination flatness,
> alignments, etc. However, when I look at
> transmission samples using brightfield or
> phase-contrast I notice small particles of dust
> located always at same position of the image.
>
> I have examined the microscope and the dust seems
> to be located on the glass in front of the CCD of
> the camera. Careful cleaning with anti-static
> clothe and air-stream only changes the distribution of the dust particles.
>
> After repeating several times the same operation,
> I have realized that the dust comes from small
> particles released in the process of screwing the
> camera into the filter wheel thread.
>
> Has anybody experienced something similar? Any
> recommendation to keep clean the CCD window?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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