Maintaining Your Equipment

Normally in the studio you have your check list for the usually stuff, here is my list of To Do’s:

1. Charge all batteries (Camera as well as AAA’s and AA’s). Double check camera battery as it may give a false reading.
2. Offload images from memory cards and re-format memory cards in the camera.
3. Clean camera lenses (Use alcohol, lint free wipes, and air blower, aka. Rocket). Since the majority of your expenses in your camera equipment is in your lenses, I would suggest babying them. Your OEM lenses will run $2,000 and up for the good stuff.
4. Dusting the sensor. I recommend cleaning your camera’s sensor before and after every shoot. Ok, I am a little anal, but I like the Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared”. There is nothing doing an entire shoot just to come back and note that there is this annoying black mark in the same position in all of your shots. Now of course you could get around this, by bumping up your aperture a few numbers, it’s up to you.