The real world is a dangerous place for cameras and lenses. Dust, dirt, and water are everywhere, leaving photographers without a safe area to set down their camera or change lenses. PetaPixel reader and photographer Alex Stammers has developed a solution to these woes, the Camera Mat.
Photography accessory company VSGO has released an extremely powerful electronic air blower to clean cameras, lenses, and other electronic devices.
First photographers on TikTok were scratching their lenses, now the ante has been upped significantly with a video showing a camera sensor destroyed by a drill.
Some photographers on TikTok are trying an unconventional technique for unusual results: taking a rock to the front of their lenses, scratching the glass, and destroying them in the process.
Realizing that your lens was dirty during a shoot is not a great feeling. While some specks of dust and other consequences of a dirty lens can be fixed via spot healing and other post-processing, it’s much easier to make sure your lens is clean to begin with and save editing time. Plus, attention to the state of your lens will help it retain its value over time and increase its longevity.
Want a glass cleaning cloth, love Apple products, and have deep pockets? Apple has a new product just for you. It's called the Apple Polishing Cloth, and it will cost you a cool $19.
The comic (or is it sadistic...) minds over at DPReview TV have put together a lens cleaning guide that somehow manages to be three things at once: informative, comical, and extremely painful to watch.
Camera lens cleaning pens use fine carbon particles to help cleanly remove smudges from your glass. Do you know what else has carbon particles? Soot. Here's a short 2.5-minute video in which photographer Mathieu Stern shows how you can use ordinary candle soot to get the same cleaning power as popular lens pens.
Here's a question I get asked about 15 times a week: “How can I get the dust out of my lens?” The right answer is you don’t. All lenses have dust in them and it doesn’t affect the images at all 99% of the time. Even if you clean it all out, it will be back after you use the lens a few times.
Here’s a pretty lengthy video tutorial by the (unofficial) Nikon Help Hotline channel …
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