My summer vacation had just started when I noticed that I had dust on my sensor. Not something I wanted to deal with in South Dakota. So, I have had to photoshop out the dust spots on pictures that had small apertures, or didn’t happen to have darker areas right where the dust was.

When I got back I went and picked up a $10 rocket blower from National Camera. (amazon link) I thought I would give it a try. Cheaper than getting it cleaned, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to try the kits where you try to wipe the sensor (actually the filter in front of the sensor).

It turned out to work for me. Others claim it just blows the dust around and you get spots on other places in you pictures. For me, it just worked.