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Giottos Rocket Air Blaster, Manual Air Blower with Extra-Large Rubber Bulb - 5.3" Long |  | Brand: Giotto's
Category: Photography
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $10.41
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Seller: DBROTH
Rating:  18 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
MPN: AA1920
Model: GIOTTOS ROCKET AIR SMALL 5.3 LONG
ASIN: B000J3HB2S
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Natural and enviromentally friendly rubber | | • | Air Inlet Valve prevents air back-flow from tube | | • | Detachable super stream air tube | | • | Giotto's patented and unique rocket base design provides standing function, convenient use and storage. | | • | Rocket-Air can blow off dust particles, even those items due to static electricity. |
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Product Description
The rocket-shaped air-blowing ball series developed in 2002 are made from a silica gel, they are very powerful and refill quickly. They are made of a nontoxic, environmentally friendly material, resistant to both high and low temperatures, tear-proof. It has an air valve to prevent it from breathing in dust and blows out a powerful stream of air to blow dust away, to make cleaning lenses, cameras, filters a breeze. Unique rocket-shaped design can stand upright, and its removable nozzle can be removed and stowed. 5.3" Long 2." Long Nozzle 2.0" Max. Diameter
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 Very nice little blower, but buy the bigger one first, or go for the kit November 6, 2009
Glenn Carpenter (Golden, Colorado)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the smallest of three Giottos "Rocket Blasters." It's a good size for carrying in the bag with your camera gear for field cleanings, but the larger blaster is much more effective and is the one to buy if you only plan to get one. Note that you can currently get this item, the small blaster, in a very nice Giottos cleaning kit for less money than the blaster sells for separately by itself - so if you're thinking about buying the blaster you'll do yourself a favor by checking out the kit and buying that instead. The blaster in the kit is exactly the same item as what you are looking at in this listing.
All the Giottos blasters are well-designed, high quality pieces that put junky little generic blower/brushes to shame. The small blaster is a little taller and a little wider than a bottle of cleaning fluid, small enough to be tucked away in a camera bag in just about any empty space. I slip mine in next to a lens, pointed down so that the tip slides in beside the lens. In use it creates a small but strong blast of air capable of dislodging most dust particles, and it's a good idea to give each lens a quick blast when you take it out of the bag, and maybe again as you put it away. Most of the time, that will be all the field cleaning your gear will require.
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 this 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 nice little piece of Italian design that anybody can buy, appreciate, and put to good use. It costs a bit more than a junky little blower/brush, but it's a heck of a lot better. I give it four stars simply because its bigger brother is a lot more effective and is probably the one to buy if you're choosing between the two.
Miscellaneous notes:
- This is the "small" Rocket Blaster. There is also a large model, and on some item pages 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. (There is also a more obscure medium size that more closely resembles the large one, with an elongated bulb).
- The small blaster is ideal for keeping in your camera bag: the large one is a bit too big. 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 probably ought to have both.
- Aside from the blower and some cleaning fluid and cleaning tissues, the other important piece of lens cleaning gear you'll need is a soft brush. The Giottos cleaning kit referenced above comes with a nice little brush, and I'd recommend just buying the kit, especially since it is currently available for less money than the blower by itself. Just search "Giottos" and the kit will come up in the first few listings. (I'm not affiliated with any of the sellers, by the way: just pointing out what I'd do myself).
 Giottos Rocket October 14, 2009
Robert Silverstein (Reston, Virginia)
Simply put, this product does exactly what it was designed to do. I consider it an important part of what I carry in my camera bag and it assures that my digital pictures are without dust spots.
Better blower than cheapos September 9, 2009
Camera Buff (South Dakota)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Better than the cheap ones, but does not do THAT great of a job. Definitely better than having the sensor cleaned professionally if it works even once. Good to have in your camera bag in case the ultrasonic cleaner on the camera does not clean the sensor. For the price, I recommend it.
This thing blows . . . July 24, 2009
Will (MI USA)
But it's the perfect size for my bag.
I have the bigger size also, it blows a little better.
Either size blows, with no chunks :)
Five Stars: *****
Ordering 2nd one March 30, 2009
Photoshop Wannabe (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Canadian equivalent to the US TSA confiscated mine before they'd let me get on the plane because it looked like a grenade.
So.... getting another one - this one will go in checked luggage.
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