Daily Maintenance for Your Camera

Nov 8
09:04

2010

Joice Feng

Joice Feng

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Nowadays, the digital camera is frequently used in our daily life. Therefore, how to maintain it has become a concerned issue for the users. We often can find out the simply instruction in the manual. But all of them are beyond our needs. In this article, I would like to share some useful daily maintenance method with you.

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The service life of the digital video camera does not depend on the manufacturing factors,Daily Maintenance for Your Camera Articles also is related with the daily maintenance. To keep the camera work in the good condition and prolong its service life, we need maintain it carefully. Besides, we should pay attention to the use of the power.

As for the daily maintenance, the correct method is very important. Sometimes, the wonderful moments make the photographer excited, but the worst situation is that you just can make an exclamation without doing anything, because there is something wrong with your camera. This situation will never happen if you master some correct maintenance method to make your camera keeping in good condition. Actually, it is not difficult to maintain your camera, if you have known about the following points:

 

Clean lens

For the clean of the camera, it is the most time-consuming work to clean the viewfinder devices, especial to clean the lens and LCD. The first rule of clean the lens there is no need to clean the lens anytime, unless you need use it in some important moment, a bit of dirt will not affect the quality of the image. When you decide to clean it, you need use the soft brush to do it, such as the painting brush, or you can use the blower to blow the dust out.

 

Besides, when we clean the lens, we need use the air pump to blow the dust before using the lens paper to wipe it, otherwise the dust may scrape the lens. Another thing which needs us to pay attention to is that the fingerprint also can damage the lens. Therefore, when you left some fingerprint on the lens, you need clean it as soon as possible. Finally, please remember to use the cap to cover the lens when you do not use it to reduce the clean frequency.

 

Maintenance under different temperature

 

We must remember do not keep the camera under high temperature or low temperature, the unsuitable temperature will damage the camera. When you are use it under the sun, you should try to avoid letting the sunshine shoot on the lens directly. When the whether is cold, you’d better put it in you pocket to keep its temperature. Besides, when you take it into the high temperature environment, you should use something to package it, in case of the condensation.

Power suppl

At present, we often use the lithium ion battery to supply power for the camera. But the specification of each camera is different. If the battery can not be compatible with your camera, you can not turn on the camera. And if you do not pay attention to brownout, the camera will be turned off automatically after you took several pieces of pictures. When you fund that the battery will be burnt out, we need replace it as soon as possible.

Changing Lens Quickly

Almost all of the fool design digital cameras are designed as sealed type, so that we need not worry about the dust. However, if your camera is a high grade one which need change the lens, you need deep on the alert. If the dust falls on the CCD when you are changing the lens, all of the picture may be damaged anytime. Therefore, you need change the lens as soon as you can.

Using scotch tape to protect the display screen

Most of the camera are equipped with liquid crystal display monitor unit, which will make it is easy to leave the fingerprint and other dirt on it. At this moment, we just need use a piece of soft cloth to wipe it. If you are worry about the LCD are scratched, you can put a piece of scotch tape on it, which is available in the shop.