Camera Maintenance

Camera Gear Maintenance: What Tony Northrup's Tutorial Taught Me I'd Been Ignoring
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Camera Gear Maintenance: What Tony Northrup's Tutorial Taught Me I'd Been Ignoring

I’ll be straight with you: I used to think camera maintenance was something you only worried about when something broke. I’d wipe down a lens with my shirt, blow on the sensor like it was an old Nintendo cartridge, and call it good. Then I spent a weekend shooting in Rocky Mountain National Park and spent three hours in Lightroom cloning out dust spots that I could have prevented in twenty minutes at home.

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