Cyclist crossing the Forth Road Bridge at sunset.
Black and white halloween door wreath.
Football goal and nets against a clear Spanish sky.
Stairwell in the Lighthouse, Glasgow
Portrait of a clown on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
If you have a DSLR and you change lenses often, you’ll end up with dirt on your sensor. While most modern(ish) DSLRs have built in sensor cleaners, they don’t do a great job and struggle with the bigger bits of dirt, hair and fluff that are magically and powerfully attracted to a camera sensor.
You can get ‘wet’ and dry cleaners to clean sensors – that use either wet chemicals swabbed on the sensor or brushes/air/static to clean, but in my experience both are really good at moving the dirt around without always getting the sensor clean.
The eyelead sensor uses a sticky jelly head on a stick (aka ‘an adhesive rubber head with high viscuosity ‘) that you dab on the sensor and which grabs and removes dust and dirt without leaving any marks. It works flawlessly – until it gets dirty, but you can clean it.
Comes in a neat tin that you can (and should) throw in your camera bag.
Rating: [star rating=”4.5″]
Pros: It’s an excellent tool – works really well.
Cons: Not cheap, not that easy to find.
The Suburban Railway loop in Morningside, Edinburgh at night.
Decorative multi-coloured ceiling light display from a Soho restaurant, London.
Inside view of the dome of the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh.