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It doesn’t matter how hard you try and shelter your camera from the evil dust bunnies, sooner or later they are going to get the best of you.  It seems that I am always locked in battle with them, along with the evil smudge monsters that attack my lens whenever I turn my back for a moment.  This is why I always carry a few secret weapons in my camera bag.

The first weapon in my dust busting arsenal is my Giottos Large Rocket Blaster.  This little football shaped tool delivers a nice powerful blast of air to blow away most loose dust and debris.  The nice thing about it is that it draws in air from the back and delivers it out of the nozzle so that you aren’t sucking the dust back into the ball and then blowing it back out onto your equipment again.

If I need to move to something a bit more intense for cleaning my lens, I pull out my handy Spudz 18% Gray Micro-Fiber Cleaning Cloth.  Not only is this a great soft cloth for cleaning lenses (and sunglasses) but it’s also 18% gray so it doubles as my gray card for metering or getting a good white balance.  Not bad for 10 bucks.

The last tool in my bag is my secret weapon for those little grease smudges that always seem to find their way onto my glass.  Don’t ask me who is sneaking up when I am not looking and smearing their dirty little fingerprints on my lens.  Well, when it does happen, it’s time for me to whip out the LensPEN.  If you don’t own one of these little marvels of lens cleaning science, I highly recommend that you get one.  There is a retractable soft brush on one end but the real magic happens on the other end where the carbon cleaning tip makes grease and grime vanish from the surface of the lens.  It is the best $10 you can spend for ensuring that your lenses stay clean and clear.

So there you have it, 3 handy little tools that will go a long way to keeping away the dust and grime and letting you get clean images from your camera and lens.

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