Giottos AA1900 Rocket Air Blaster Large - Black
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Giottos AA1900 Rocket Air Blaster Large - Black
Customer Review: Excellent Money Saver
Summary: 5 Stars
After spending several days attempting to locate an alternative to "canned air" I saw this product here on amazon. The primary reason for why I wanted this product was for my office at work to clean the electronics and computer peripherals. I am close to the front door and my work space tends to get dusty very quickly. After using this product for a few weeks at the office for my personal space I acquired an additional one for the IT supply closet as well. Even though this is not the purpose it was intended for this product works so well it has significantly exceeded my expectations.
There are three primary things that I like about this product.
1 It gets the job done with a minimal amount of fuss. I have very weak hands and I cannot squeeze things very hard but the rubber of this product is soft enough that I can use it. Even with my reduced hand strength it still generates enough power to kick a staple out of my keyboard.
2 The rocket shape might look a little unusual for what it does but it is great to be able to set it aside and not have to worry about it rolling away. It also helped with storage.
3 The quality of this product is great. I have had this product for about a year now and the product still works and feels just about the same as when I bought it.
On a side not I haven't bought any canned air since I bought my first rocket.
Customer Review: Works great
Summary: 5 Stars
The time had finally come for me to attempt to clean my sensor. I have tried having it professionally done before, but with very poor results. You know what they say... If you want something done right, do it yourself. The only problem here is that it was my camera sensor. Look on the web and there are warnings all over about the risk of damaging the sensor. But, an unusable camera (due to dust) is unusable - so I decided it was time to actually try it. And it wasn't so bad.
It was pretty nerve racking, but it was fairly easy.
I used a staged approach and I bought all the stuff - the blower, the brush, and the swabs. I went through each method and it was just like you read in the other reviews. The blower took off some, the brush took off more, and the swab got all the rest.
I was pretty pleased with the blower even though it didn't even come close to removing all the dust. It is light years ahead of the little weenie blowers you get in camera cleaning kits. It is not a replacement for actually cleaning the sensor, but it works as a good preventative measure to blow dust out of your chamber and to blow the loose stuff off of your sensor.
Overall, it is a pretty good buy and I would definitely buy it again.
Customer Review: Mega nifty neato.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great little air-squishy-ball-thingy that will save you a ton of cash on canned air. Perfect for lenses, it even has a little filter on the air intake so no dust gets inside! Wow! Thats cool! Air velocity is sufficient to remove even stubborn dust and comes close to that of canned air, in short bursts of course. The rubber is very rubbery in feel, look and smell (which is similar to that of a bicycle store), and it is quite satisfying to squish. The rocket fins don't do a tremendous job of keeping a stable flight attitude when tossed about the room or to your assistant, but they do keep it from rolling off the table and thats nice too. The company logo looks good on each side of the ball, but I would like to see it in red to match the nozzle. Giottos thought of everything you could want in a squishy-ball duster, even a couple of small holes in the fins so you can ( and I am NOT making this up!) wear it around your neck... and look like a total dill-wad out in public. On the other end of the ball, the shiny red nozzle does a great job of being nozzely and is long enough to stuff just about anywhere that dust needs to be blown, and a few places that don't. All in all, this is my favorite squishy-ball-duster-thingy ever.Customer Review: HUGE, but a huge help
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product after finding multiple spots on my photos.
The best way to test if you have dust on your camera's sensor is to set your f-value very high such as f-22 and take picture of the sky or a bright piece of paper. Dust usually only appears in your photos at smaller apertures. You should be able to see most blotches clearly if you do the test right.
Anyway, this thing did the job perfectly. I know how sensitive camera sensors are, and am a little hesitant about using the "wet" method. And besides, this is much cheaper. All you do is go into a dust free room (bathroom worked for me), take off your lens, set your camera to mirror lock-up mode, stick the little red tube into the lens bay, and give it a few blows. Wait about 5 seconds after each blow to allow the dust to fall out. Just make sure you do this is a room free of moisture. Then you just pop the lens back on and take another test shot.
It also works great for taking dust off your lenses, off of your camera, out of your computer keyboard, or really anything.
The only cons I can think of are that it is too big to fit in my camera bag, and that it is loud. But it is still well worth the money, and five stars.
Customer Review: What girth!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is currently the rudest object I own. When I ordered it, I didn't realise how large it was; I assumed it was the size of a pen. In fact the bulb is meaty and fist-sized. I find it impossible to squeeze it without thinking of the Carry On films.
It is easy to use. You insert the red tip into the appropriate orifice (but not all the way), and then you deftly squeeze the thick, black stem, and it shoots its load. The jet isn't so powerful that it will damage anything, but you wouldn't want to shoot it into your eye. It's better than blowing with your mouth, because there's no chance of staining the target with sputum.
I also have a Lenspen, which works very well on stubborn specks but is laborious, and I'm always worried that I might nudge the shutter. Of course the Rocket doesn't actually suck out the dust, it just moves it about, but as long as you make sure that you're in a relatively dust-free environment (e.g. outdoors in the alps) it should be a lot more effective than wiping the lens mount with your sleeve. Best of all, it's a great conversation-opener and it makes people smile, women especially, and that's worth more than money.