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I hate DUST!!! Have you ever been all excited about a sunset somewhere, or a wedding, a safari with your DSLR camera. You take hundreds of shots. You change lenses. You put on fancy filters. You take multiple exposures for HDR. You fill up two CF cards. When you get home you are full of hopeful anticipation that you got some really good shots. But as you review them there are dust spot(s) and they are in places that you just cannot easily photoshop out. Its DUST!!!!
I hate Dust. So theoretically you cleaned everything before you left for your shoot… So where did the dust come from. Well…. one source is when you changed lenses. There is dust everywhere and hair, and pollen, and little bugs.
This post explains how I do a Field Change of DSLR Lens with minimum dust intrusion.
The problem is there always seems to be a need to change lenses. Even when you know exactly what you are going to shoot…..you will invariably see something that requires a different lens. I guess you could carry multiple cameras each with a different lens. But that’s a lot of gear around your neck or on your back.
I usually can get by with two lenses for most stuff. If they are small I stick one on my camera and the other in a bag. That even works up to my Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 IS. Bigger than that I use a larger bag. But I still have to change the lens. And, most of the time, there is not a table or chair in site.
I checked on the internet, specifically, youtube, and found one really fast guy (he has since pulled his vid). It looks fast but I do not think that I want to hold a 70-200 and 24-105 in one hand with just a couple of fingers between my $2000-3000 investment and the hard ground below. But for smaller lenses its much faster than what I will suggest.
So I have developed a technique that I think keeps all of my stuff safe and minimizes the exposure to dust. I documented it on a youtube video that you can see below.
Be kind….. its my first video for my blog…..I should get better at this as I do more of these
BTW I did a rough timing on this and it took about 30 seconds…not real speed…but safe… and clean enough, I think.
How to change your lenses in the field March 8, 2011 [...] you have to do it standing. So I developed my own technique. Pls check it out on my blog here: Safely Change DSLR Lenses in Field with Minimum Dust Exposure Bobkeenan Photography Be kind though as its my first video posting to a blog. I need to work on my video skills. [...] Reply
[...] you have to do it standing. So I developed my own technique. Pls check it out on my blog here: Safely Change DSLR Lenses in Field with Minimum Dust Exposure Bobkeenan Photography Be kind though as its my first video posting to a blog. I need to work on my video skills. [...]
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