On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:30:18 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>Cesar B wrote:

>>I own a Sony TRV-900 Digital Video/Photo camera with an original Sony
>>"VCL-0752H" X0.7 Wide Conversion Lens always attached to it, and
>>although I try to keep it always clean, I can't avoid to get the
>>annoying
>>dust spots at all times. This problem is more noticeable when I shoot
>>towards the sun, lights, etc.
>...
>>Is there a good portable cleaner or kit to avoid this?

>Visit any camera store, get a dust poofer (little rubber squeeze bulb
>with a soft camel hair brush), some Kodak Lens Cleaner (accept no
>substitutes) and Kodak Lens Paper (ditto). If you havent done this
>before, bring your camera along and ask the store to demo how to use
>this (don't let them sell you store brand or even a camera brand of
>the cleaner or paper, I've had some really wretched luck with other
>types). You only need the cleaner when you got a fingerprint or
>something to remove.

I second the above, though I use a large air bulb without brush
(it can pick up oils and make things worse). I use
it VERY often when shooting with WA and fisheye converters
(which is most of the time...), since even one chunk of
dust on the front of a WA converter is annoyingly visible
in the video most of the time when shooting at max WA.