But if you already have your sherpa holding the lens, why not just let them hang on to it until you are ready to swap back? I've found a number of times I have my wife/sherpa (don't tell her I said that :uhoh) hang on to the lens--and even handle the lens capping. Then when it's time to swap I just say "lens!" and poof, the other one appears beside me ready to mount. The trick is a patient and understanding wife--and one that's being trained to spot shots on her own, thus the process is now her fault ("honey, how about that shot?").
Hehe... I suspect I'd find said lens headed my way via "air mail", from a distance, and with a fair amount of force behind it if I tried that. My wife is usually off shooting with her camera while I'm shooting with mine, so I'd rather keep all the bits of mine in my bag. She sometimes amazes me with what her little point and shoot can come back with... looping back to roseelliot's initial question on this thread... sometimes it just doesn't matter what the lens is, it's the person on the other end of it that counts. There's a great quote in a photography text I had in school, I forget who it was that said it... but it had to do with DoF calculations and basically said "don't let the process of photography get in the way of capturing a great image." Same goes here... don't let the question of which lens to shoot with get in the way of just getting the image, and enjoying being there in the moment.
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Lots of good advice in this thread.....instead of a bottle of sensor cleaning liquid... I carry in amy bag several packets of ZEISS Lens cloths...premositened and have used them to clean sensor...had to wrap said lens cloth around a q-tp but it worked and the cleaner evaporates extemely fast....
Where to buy...not sure...bought 600 2yrs ago at Sams' Club...as to size of lens cleanig cloth packet - the same as a Trojan
As for travelling for shot trips - I carry an Arctic Butterfly from VisibleDust, but now easily available from Amazon.com. For a trip lasting longer than a week or two, I would bring some Eclipse and a dozen sensor swabs if I was going to shoot landscapes.
PF, can you speak to what the pros/cons would be between the arctic butterfly and the sensor brush (spinning device kind)?
With the sensor brush, you need to use canned air to charge the sensor brush. You cannot take canned air on a commercial airline.
With the Arctic Butterfly, you charge the bristles with an electric motor which spins the brush. Seems to work fine, it is small and takes up little space.
There are times you will need to use Eclipse and a Swab tho. Not all the dust bunnies come from outside the camera.
With the sensor brush, you need to use canned air to charge the sensor brush. You cannot take canned air on a commercial airline.
With the Arctic Butterfly, you charge the bristles with an electric motor which spins the brush. Seems to work fine, it is small and takes up little space.
There are times you will need to use Eclipse and a Swab tho. Not all the dust bunnies come from outside the camera.
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More importantly, how do YOU sleep when your lenses could be forming a permenant bond to the camera body, staying fused together. FOREVER!
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Hehe... I suspect I'd find said lens headed my way via "air mail", from a distance, and with a fair amount of force behind it if I tried that.
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Where to buy...not sure...bought 600 2yrs ago at Sams' Club...as to size of lens cleanig cloth packet - the same as a Trojan
I've seen bulk packaging at Sam's Club and smaller boxes in Wal-Mart's optical department.
I don't have a sensor to clean (yet) but love them for just about everything else.
Donn
PF, can you speak to what the pros/cons would be between the arctic butterfly and the sensor brush (spinning device kind)?
Erich
With the Arctic Butterfly, you charge the bristles with an electric motor which spins the brush. Seems to work fine, it is small and takes up little space.
There are times you will need to use Eclipse and a Swab tho. Not all the dust bunnies come from outside the camera.
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