Instructions:

Note: Never touch the bristles/fibers of the D-SLR Brush, with your fingers or skin as this will contaminate the brush which will make it ineffective and pass on the oils from your skin to the sensor.

ChamberSwab

Items needed to complete this task: ChamberSwab, Eclipse and your Digital SLR Camera Body.

1. Use the “mirror lock-up” function of your camera or manually lift up your mirror exposing the 3 walls of the mirror cage/chamber, the bottom side of the mirror, and the shutter blades.
2. To manually lift up the Mirror, fire the camera a time or two at a slow shutter speed while looking into the mirror cage so that you can see how it is hinged at the back and goes up and down. The mirror is held down by springs and can be lifted up with little to no effort with a fingernail or the handle end of the ChamberSwab.
3. Place 2-4 drops of Eclipse on the foam tip of the ChamberSwab.
4. With the foam portion of the ChamberSwab, wipe the 3 walls of the mirror chamber and the bottom side of the mirror. Wipe the lens mount and face of the mirror cage. DO NOT touch the Focusing Screen or the Shutter Blades.
5. If you have to rewet the ChamberSwab, make sure that it is never sopping wet (Eclipse dripping off the tip) as you never want to leave puddles behind.
   

D-SLR Brush

Items needed to complete this task: Proper size or smaller D-SLR Brush, Hand or Foot Blower, your Digital SLR Camera Body, a Lens, a media Card and a Computer.

1. Choose a closed room or location where fans or air conditioners aren’t blowing and where dust is at it lowest to accomplish this task.
2. Per the instructions in the owners’ manual for your camera, place your camera into its “cleaning mode.”
3. Use the blower and blow off any dust particles that can be removed with this method. When not actually cleaning, keep the face of the camera pointing down.
4. Remove the D-SLR Brush from its protective tube being careful not to touch its bristles.
5. Holding the brush by the handle in one hand and your blower in the other hand, blow air through the bristles hard enough to make the bristles separate. Do this multiple times which will increase the charge on the brush and dislodge any foreign matter.
6. With the camera still in its cleaning mode, take the brush by the handle and barely touch the sensor with the bristles whisking across the sensor from one side to the other ONCE. Remember, that you are not sweeping the sensor but using the static charge built up on the bristles to attract the dust particles off the sensor.
7. Repeat steps 5 & 6 as many times as necessary with little to no delay between the two steps.
8. Take a test image and view it on your computer to see if you now have a clean sensor.
9. If you have a dust spot that is still there, you can repeat steps 5, 6 & 8 a time or two more. If you have a dust spot that stays in the same place after each test, this spot is being held on by something more than static and will require you to use a “Wet Method” for its removal.
10. If you have streaks on your sensor, this is sign that your brush has become contaminated by one of multiple sources. You will need to use a "Wet Method" to clean your sensor, and you will need to clean your brush.

The #1 culprit for contaminating brushes is stray lubricants from within your mirror cage. This is why we use the ChamberSwab first. The #2 culprit is the propellants from canned air and that is why we don’t recommend any canned air.

Cleaning the D-SLR Brush

Items needed to complete this task: Distilled Water, Running Tap Water, a clean Drinking Glass and a cleanser. There are a couple of different cleansers that we can recommend: either Johnson's Baby Shampoo or Efferdent Denture Cleaners.

1. Dissolve 1 Efferdent tablet or a couple drops of Johnson's Baby shampoo in a large glass of distilled water.
2. Swish the brush bristles around in the cleansing solution created in step 1. Only subject the bristles to the cleaning solution keeping the the handle and ferrule dry. 
3. Press the bristles against the side of the glass to force the cleansing water through and out of the bristles.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for about 5 minutes.
5. Rinse the brush under running tap water thoroughly.
6. Rinse the glass used in step 1 thoroughly and fill it with distilled water.
7. Rinse the brush for its final time in this glass of pure distilled water.
8. Allow the brush to dry at which time it will appear to be hard, but a blast or two from your blower will bring it back to normal.