Customers Reviews
2009-11-20
Portable Dust Can anytime
When my Giottos Rocket Blaster Air Blower came in, i first used it on my keyboard, it works! I usually shake my keyboard on its side and slightly near upside down to remove dust or any small objects that had fallen in, but it fails. The Giottos Rocket Blaster Air Blower worked well here!!
Then i moved on to dusting the fans of my computer, great job it did there, comparable to a dust can (depending on how strong and fast your grip is)
Giottos Rocket Blaster Air Blower works well with my camera gear and stays in my camera bag. [...]
I use it everytime i pull out my camera, just to ensure there is no dust on my lens.
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2009-11-14
It Did the Job and Cleaned the Sensor on my DSLR
I have a Nikon D5000 DSLR, and after changing lenses outside one day, I noticed some debris on the sensor, which showed up when I took photos with an aperture setting of f22 and above. I tried using a little blower-bulb that my wife owned to remove the debris, but it had absolutely no effect. Thus, I decided to get this rocket blaster.
When it arrived in the mail, I was amazed how big and sturdy it was, but, I guess that was the reason I bought it in the first place! I followed the instructions for locking the mirror on my D5000, which exposed the low-pass filter that sits in front of the sensor, and I shot a few blasts of air into the camera body (taking care *not* to touch the sensor). Sure enough, when I re-started the camera, the debris was removed. Success!
This will be my first line of defense when cleaning dust and debris off my sensor in the future. I hope this will allow me to avoid having to resort to cleaners that actually come in contact with the low-pass filter/sensor itself. While the size is necessary to do the job right, it does make carrying the rocket blaster with me a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, it just barely fits in my camera bag in an upright position, but its size means I don't have room for another accessory in that same spot. This is all right, because the rocket blaster is an inexpensive, and easy, way to get dust and debris off my sensor.
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2009-11-06
Simply flawless
Glance through my reviews and you'll see I'm hardly inclined to give a product five stars without a good reason. In this case I have no choice: the large Giottos Rocket Blaster is an item of such flawless quality and functionality that I literally can't think of a single way it could be improved.
In its standing position it has approximately the proportions of a large drinking glass. It's not small; in fact it's about as big as it can be while still fitting comfortably in your hand. That's an important detail: squeezing it is easy enough but because of its size it moves enough air to direct a strong, smooth blast at whatever you're attempting to clean. I've spent half my life trying to blow dust off lenses with junky little blower/brushes that don't do a thing, and through size alone the large Giottos blaster is a vastly better tool for the job.
Beyond that, there are lots of design details that help the Rocket Blaster do its job. The materials, particularly the expensive silicone rubber used for the blower bulb itself, are of obvious high quality. The bulb has a separate intake valve at its rear, so that it can fill more quickly than would be the case if the small blower nozzle were its only source of intake air. And of course its freestanding "rocket" design is itself simple, useful and unique. Look closely at the blower nozzle: the hole through which the air is forced is not round, it's an obviously-deliberate triangular shape, and if you think about it a moment it might occur to you that a this interesting shape might very well be more efficient at generating a coherent stream of air than a simple round nozzle. Just another detail.
The end result is an item that is deceptively simple but so nicely made that it just doesn't have any competition. It's a flawless little piece of Italian design that anybody can buy, appreciate, and put to good use. It might cost five times as much as a junky little blower/brush, but it must be at least a hundred times better.
Miscellaneous notes:
- This is the "large" Rocket Blaster. There is also a small model, and in some cases here on Amazon it has not been perfectly clear what you're getting from the item photograph or description. Here's how you tell difference: the small blaster has a round (spherical) bulb, the large one has an elongated, more or less elliptical bulb.
- The large blaster is not ideal for carrying in a bag: it's a bit too big. Buy one of the small models for keeping in your bag, and the large one for home. The large one is probably two or three times as effective as the small one, however, so if you only intend to buy one, buy the large one. Honestly, by the time you have a modest sum invested in camera gear, you really ought to have both.
- It's hard to quantify the strength of the airflow - too subjective. Here's my attempt anyway: Putting a penny down on a smooth surface, the airflow from the large blaster from a distance of about three inches will make it jump. At about the same distance, aiming the blaster at the palm of my hand will create a depression in the skin of the palm. I can make a piece of ordinary copy paper flutter by using the blaster from about 2-1/2 feet away. Compared to the small blaster, for those who have it, the large blaster seems to provide about double the force of air for about double the amount of time.
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2009-11-04
It does the job well
There isn't a whole lot one can say about an air blower. It is made of durable materials and the rocket design stops just short of cutesy. I anticipate that it will last for years. It provides a powerful puff of air for cleaning lenses, camera bodies, and the like. The air is filtered as it enters the bulb, which contains no oil or manufacturing residue. It is too large for most camera bags but has a prominent place in my study-cum-studio.
Highly recommended.
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2009-09-22
Exactly what I needed
The rocket blaster worked exactly as advertised and removed the dust from the camera sensor.
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