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How To Clean Your DSLR’s Sensor
Should you clean your sensor? That depends on what kind of cleaning you plan to do, and whose advice you listen to. Some vendors countenance only dust-off cleaning, through the use of reasonably gentle blasts of air, while condemning more serious scrubbing with swabs and cleaning fluids. These same manufacturers sometimes offer the cleaning kits [...]
Using Interchangeable Lenses
The next most important component of a digital SLR is the lens—or, more properly, lenses—because, unlike other types of digital cameras, the lens of a dSLR is interchangeable. I’m not going to waste a lot of time discussing the science of optics, primarily because it’s an ancient technology. Indeed, in the Western world, Romans invented [...]
