How to Clean Digital Camera Lens with a Vacuum Cleaner?

Sometimes dust enters the inside of the lens of digital cameras and results in black spots visible on the display and on pictures. This trick involves getting rid of them with a vacuum cleaner, when all else has failed and the costs of cleaning the inside of the lens are prohibitive compared to the cost of buying a new camera.

Steps:

1. Roll up the plastic wrap, forming a thin sausage and leaving a section unrolled.
2. Wrap the plastic wrap around the opening so that the sausage is on the opening of the vacuum hose.
3. Turn on your camera and schedule auto off time, if enabled, on a long time, or disable it so the camera won't shut off (and cover the lens) during the operation.
4. Connect the vacuum hose and camera so that the camera completely plugs the opening. The plastic wrap will help create an airtight seal.
5. Turn on the vacuum cleaner at the lowest power and wait a few seconds. Make sure that the appliance is perfectly joining the opening.
6. Turn off the vacuum and pull it off of the camera. Take a few test shots and see if it worked! If it did not, try again with the vacuum on a higher setting.

Warning:

This is a last resort method for cleaning the inside of a lens, not the outside, it may well break your camera.

Things You will need:

• Camera
• Plastic wrap (cling film)
• Vacuum cleaner with hose with no accessories attached.