Cleaning Camera Body to Remove Smell
Spog
Overall, it's in very good condition & I'm pleased with the purchase.
However the previous owner was a smoker. Now either he permanently
smoked while composing, or his whole house must have been full of
smoke, cause the body/lens absolutely stinks of tobacco smoke. I mean
stinks.
I've given it a clean with a glass cleaner (some specialist stuff)
which has brought up the shine, but I can't kill the smokey smell.
Anyone recommend something to take away the smell that won't eat into
the rubber/plastic of the bosy?
Thanks
Spog
Mike
taking it apart and cleaning it.
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phantom309
probably go away on its own in a week or two regardless.
Greg
time. I would think most of the smell is in the leatherette and or case if
it has one - maybe you can pay some cleaning attention to those (or throw
away and replace the case).
Then there is one more option that you have... have you considered taking up
smoking? I bet that way you would not notice the smell :-)
Please report back in a couple of weeks, whether the smell is getting less
bothersome.
Greg
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Mike
75 was a Canon F1 that the owners tom cat had sprayed. Talk about a
STINK.....lol. It sat locked in my garage for 3 weeks before I could get
near it. What a mess.....
Then there was a time when I was working in upstate NY. A customer came in
the shop with his camera in a plastic bag.....rofl.....seems he was standing
in front of a urinal when the strap broke......LOL!!!!
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Hank Scorpio
dish, that might work, let any dust settle before you put the camera in with
it, or you could instead try a dish of vinegar, it gets rid of most smells,
I don't think it would have any physical effect on the camera, at least no
worse than the glass cleaner. It might smell like vinegar for a bit though
:) which is much better than smoke IMO.
HS
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for a chain of auto dealers and they get smoker cars in all the time. They
own a few device's they use in their detail departments called an Ozonator,
looks like a battery charger. It really generates O3 which attaches
molecularly itself to and changes or neutralizes the smell. Even with all
the absorbtive material in a car. They run it for a day the and turn the
air on and the heater and it deodorizes the car. It removes odors
permanently.
Some places rent them who do fire and water damage restorations.
I also heard of a company that makes OZ in can and you would get a large
barbage bag put a book in it on the bottom to raise the camera, put the
camera in and gas it, slowly by letting the gas fill the flattened bag, so
it fills with gas, not spray...close it with a tielock for a day and let the
03 do it's work.
Also give Lysol and the plastic bag a shot. Don't wet the camera just let
the gas in. The old book keeps it above the liquid if any gets in.....
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must have taken some pretty amazing shots with it!
Anyway, I removed the grip and tried cleaning the rubber bits with
dishwashing detergent but it didn't help much. When I traded it in the shop
put it in their display window for about 2 weeks. I picked it up once and
had a sniff but the smell had gone, so I can only assume that being aired
for a while helped get rid of the smell.
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Bob Hickey
and never smelt cigarettes on a camera. Any way "Fabreeze", which is
supposed to take odors out of clothes and furniture, really, really
works. I wouldn't inhale it though. Bob
Hickey
Charo
@storefull-2171.public.lawson.webtv.net:
> I''ve been smoking Camels for 45 yrs.
> and never smelt cigarettes on a camera.
As soon as you quit smoking (if you do), you'll smell the cigarettes on
everything you own! I learned this when we moved from a tiny apartment
that we both smoked in, to a new home that had never been smoked in...
our clothing, furniture -EVERYTHING- smelled like smoke, and turned this
fresh new house into an ashtray! We hadn't smelled it in our old place -
at all! We haven't smoked indoors since that experience. (And I
febreezed and washed everything we owned to get that smell out!)
I would bet that my camera equipment, though it's kept indoors in a
smoke-free environment, still has a lingering smoke smell to it. But I'm
sure I'd never be able to detect the scent (on my photo equipment) with
my desensitized nose, though.
To the original poster: The Wizard plug-in air freshener (the one that is
specifically for tobacco odor) worked really well in our garage (our
smoking area). I'd plug one of those guys into a small room and leave
the camera in there for a bit, until it neutralized the tobacco odor.
Seemed to work well on our belongings.
Good luck,
~Charo
Bob Fowler
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> Could be worse. The 6th job I got in after opening my camera repair shop
in
> 75 was a Canon F1 that the owners tom cat had sprayed. Talk about a
> STINK.....lol. It sat locked in my garage for 3 weeks before I could get
> near it. What a mess.....
> Then there was a time when I was working in upstate NY. A customer came
in
> the shop with his camera in a plastic bag.....rofl.....seems he was
standing
> in front of a urinal when the strap broke......LOL!!!!
That job must have been a real pisser...
Sorry, couldn't resist
Bob Fowler
sax...@superlink.net
paulisme
and I just let it air out. I wouldn't try taking it apart and
cleaning it for immediate results and risk damaging the camera when
just a week or two worth of patience will harmlessly do the trick.
Paul
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> Here is how to get rid of tobacco smells. I do the photography and MIS
work
> for a chain of auto dealers and they get smoker cars in all the time. They
> own a few device's they use in their detail departments called an
Ozonator,
> looks like a battery charger. It really generates O3 which attaches
> molecularly itself to and changes or neutralizes the smell. Even with all
> the absorbtive material in a car. They run it for a day the and turn the
> air on and the heater and it deodorizes the car. It removes odors
> permanently.
>
> Some places rent them who do fire and water damage restorations.
>
> I also heard of a company that makes OZ in can and you would get a large
> barbage bag put a book in it on the bottom to raise the camera, put the
> camera in and gas it, slowly by letting the gas fill the flattened bag, so
> it fills with gas, not spray...close it with a tielock for a day and let
the
> 03 do it's work.
Just make sure that YOU don't inhale too much of the ozone, free radicals
are linked to cell damage.
Spog
The smell is definitely stale tobacco (I'm sure there are a lot of
smokers who wouldn't smell the way they do, if they knew they did (no
offence to smokers intended).
When I took the camera out of the box, the smell hit me like a cloud
of gas. After the cleaning and a bit of time, it seems to have faded
to the point where I can smell it when my eye is next to the eyepiece.
That said, I do have quite a sensitive nose.
Following your suggestions, I'll leave it for a week longer to see if
it gets better. The ozone suggestion intrigues me, but I am not sure I
can get my hands on some - perhaps I'll leave the camera on top of a
photocopier for a while....
If that doesn't work, I'll try baking powder - but if I end up with a
cloud of white dust ever time my shutter fires, I know who to blame.
Final solution, I'll hang some fragrent herbs in a little bag from the
body. Not only fragrant, but very enviro-trendy.
Thanks again, it's been very useful
spog
Victor Bazarov
> [...]
> Following your suggestions, I'll leave it for a week longer to see if
> it gets better. The ozone suggestion intrigues me, but I am not sure I
> can get my hands on some - perhaps I'll leave the camera on top of a
> photocopier for a while....
Don't use ozone. It's a very potent oxidiser, it will literally
eat your camera alive (similar to throwing it in a fire or leaving
it in tropics for a year, with the exception that nothing's gonna
grow, only rust).
Victor
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Steve Kramer
>
> Here is how to get rid of tobacco smells. I do the photography and MIS work
> for a chain of auto dealers and they get smoker cars in all the time. They
> own a few device's they use in their detail departments called an Ozonator,
> looks like a battery charger. It really generates O3 which attaches
> molecularly itself to and changes or neutralizes the smell. Even with all
> the absorbtive material in a car. They run it for a day the and turn the
> air on and the heater and it deodorizes the car. It removes odors
> permanently.
>
> Some places rent them who do fire and water damage restorations.
>
> I also heard of a company that makes OZ in can
My father (another Art Kramer) used to use a can of that in his office.
He was an oral surgeon and frequently had patients who's nerves got the
better of them before surgery and 'lost it' in the waiting room. After a
mop-up, his nurse would spray something called Ozium (if I remember
correctly) and the room would be pleasant (or at least enterable) again.
Steve Kramer
Chiang Mai, Thailand
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place as his.
Russ
Dallas
your sense of smell increases exponentially, even to the point where it is
better than what it was before you smoked.
I cannot explain this well enough to people who smoke, but you carry with
you the most vile reek imaginable. As Charo mentioned, it sticks to
everything you own.
My mother died in August 2000 from a heart attack brought on by excessive
smoking. It hardens the HDL cholesterol in your blood which forms a plaque
on your arteries - if the plaque tears it can completely block the arteries
around your heart. The result of course is a fatal heart attack.
My Mom was 52 at the time of her death. Hardly old age. Her sister, my aunt,
was the reason I gave up on New Years Eve, 1995. Ever heard a person with
chronic emphasema cough?
Actually, I've never really seen people smoking (except when they have been
on fire). I do see a whole bunch of suckers though.
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