The 20-Minute Camera Cleaning Routine That Keeps Your Gear Shoot-Ready (Erik Kuna's Method)

The 20-Minute Camera Cleaning Routine That Keeps Your Gear Shoot-Ready (Erik Kuna's Method)

I used to treat camera cleaning the way most people treat car maintenance — something I’d get around to eventually, usually after something went wrong. Then I started noticing soft spots in photos that weren’t from my technique. Dust on the sensor. Haze creeping into a lens element I hadn’t touched in months. Smudges I couldn’t even see until the image was on screen at 100%. The frustrating part is that none of it had to happen.