Giottos AA1900 Rocket Air Blaster Large - Black

The Giottos AA1900 Rocket Air Blaster was bought mainly for cleaning dust off my Nikon D850, but I’ve ended up using it for a lot more than that. Performance: It does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It pushes a strong, controlled burst of air that works well for blowing dust off camera gear without touching anything. It’s also been useful for cleaning my keyboard and getting dust out of my computer. Feel/Quality: It feels solid in hand and is easy to control. The rubber build gives it a good grip and it holds its shape well when in use. Limitation: No real complaints, but it’s still a manual air blower, so it’s not as powerful as compressed air for heavier cleaning jobs. Conclusion: Overall, it’s a simple but very useful tool that I now reach for more often than I expected. Works well for camera gear and has found multiple uses around my setup.

I purchased this over a year ago and have been using it whenever I want to blow dust off my tech and gear. As an avid photographer and a stickler for maintaining my camera gear in pristine condition, the Giottos Rocket Air Blaster has become an indispensable tool in my kit. This unassuming yet powerful dust blower has revolutionized the way I clean my camera equipment, and I can confidently say it's a must-have accessory for anyone serious about keeping their gear spotless. Design and Build Quality: The Giottos Rocket Air Blaster's design is cleverly inspired by a rocket, and it's not just for aesthetics. The elongated nozzle resembles the rocket's nose, making it easy to reach into tight spaces and crevices without causing any damage. The overall build quality is exceptional, featuring robust materials that ensure durability over time. The rubber bulb is easy to squeeze, providing a steady and controlled stream of air without any leaks or inconsistencies. Performance and Effectiveness: When it comes to removing dust and debris from delicate camera lenses, sensors, and other equipment, the Giottos Rocket Air Blaster performs like a champ. Its powerful burst of air is more than sufficient to blow away even the tiniest particles without the need for physical contact, reducing the risk of scratches or damage to sensitive coatings. The blower's air intake valve prevents dust from being sucked back into the nozzle, ensuring that the cleaned areas stay pristine. Portability and Convenience: The Giottos Rocket Air Blaster's lightweight design makes it portable but the large size comes with space challenges depending on how big your camera bag is. I carry a Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L so the blaster stays at home since I don't like to carry bulky bags but I could buy a smaller blaster if I wanted to carry it around. I ultimately chose the larger one so that I could get more air to come out per squeeze and thus have more force to push dust away. Seeing how much I use the large size, I might buy the smaller size so I have something to carry around. User-Friendly: One of the standout features of this blower is its straightforward operation. The ergonomic design of the Rocket Air Blaster ensures a comfortable grip, allowing for precise and targeted bursts of air. Value for Money: While the Giottos Rocket Air Blaster might be priced slightly higher than other air blowers on the market, the performance and build quality more than justify the investment. It has proven to be a reliable and effective tool, extending the lifespan of my camera gear and ensuring consistently clean shots. Conclusion: In conclusion, the Giottos Rocket Air Blaster is an outstanding product that lives up to its reputation as a top-tier dust blower for camera gear. Its excellent performance, user-friendly design, and durable build make it a worthwhile investment for both amateur and professional photographers alike. If you're serious about maintaining your camera equipment and want to ensure the best possible image quality, this little rocket blower will undoubtedly blast away your cleaning woes. Highly recommended!

Giotto makes the best hand-held airblowers (in my experience.) In this case it’s being used to blow dust out of a laptop keyboard. If you compare it to another brand to blow the same piece of paper, this will send that paper farther away. I have used another Giotto to blow dust off camera lenses and it works great. The rubber used is just soft enough to provide an easy squeeze, and solid enough to provide a strong burst of air. One more thing: hold the keyboard upside down over a towel to let the dust fall away from the keyboard while you blow on it. You may need to have someone hold the keyboard while you squeeze the Giotto. BONUS: You may also build up your hand muscles in the process!

The AA1900 Large Rocket Blaster does its job very well, and you won't find a better air blower for the price (or twice the price). The diaphragm is well constructed, and the feet, though slightly soft, are plenty stable to hold the device upright. Two of the feet have a small hole, useful for affixing some kind of strap or string for carrying or hanging around your neck. The blaster is easy enough to squeeze quickly and produces a good blast of air from the nozzle. It does have a "rubbery" smell at first, but it airs out pretty quickly. The nozzle itself is removable, and can be stored inverted in the diaphragm to save a little space in your bag. Note, however, that the nozzle takes good, firm pulling to remove from the diaphragm, and is also a snug fit (so replacing it takes significant force as well). I don't fault the design here - just pointing out that it's not a quick task, and if you're like me, you won't use it often. The only flaw I've found with the device is with possibly its most noteworthy feature. There is a one-way air valve in the base of the diaphragm, the idea being that as you loosen your grip on the diaphragm, air refills it through the base only, and doesn't suck back in the dust you just blew loose. However, in my experience, some air does still re-enter the diaphragm via the nozzle, so it is possible to get dust back into the diaphragm. That dust is going to come gusting back out of the nozzle the next time you squeeze it. However, when squeeze the diaphragm, air only exits out of the nozzle. That part works great. It's worth pointing out that the amount of air that re-enters via the nozzle is dramatically reduced by the existence of the air valve, so it's not totally without merit (and is certainly better than a blower without one at all). It seems to me that they could have employed a similar one-way valve on the nozzle end (in reverse, obviously) so that air could only exit that end, and not re-enter.

unironically worth the price, theres a lot of inflated cool factor for those that think they need this.. but its actually functionally better. more airflow volume, it will last longer, and it doubles as a great stress toy. sounds ridiculous but i wouldnt mind dropping $20 for another one.

Saw this item being used on you tube for cleaning records so I decided to try it. Works well!

I have an arsenal of weapons that I use for sensor cleaning. They include fluids, swabs, Sensorklear pens, brushes, and Sensorklear loupes. My first resort when a problem arises is my Giotto's blower. Because it requires no solid contact with the sensor, it is the least likely to do harm. The device blows hard enough to dislodge just about anything that isn't actually stuck to the surface or smeared onto the surface. It uses one-way valves (check-valves) so that it sucks air in the back end and blows it out the tube in front. The check valve on the rear probably serves to help filter the air. BTW, the use of canned compressed air or even dry nitrogen is not a good idea because its cold temperature can cause condensation, and if the can is held wrong it can actually spew liquid. I've read the reviews that say the blower just stirs up existing dust. The reviewers who claim that are actually in some good company. The professional camera book writer that I admire most makes the same point in some of his books, although I note that he may have come around lately. I have a simple approach to minimizing the stirring-up-dust problem. I turn the camera face down before I remove the lens or body cap. I hold it up high, still facing down so that I can see the sensor. Then I use the blower, being careful not to get the tip too close to the sensor. Next I replace the cover on the front of the camera. In this way, I let gravity help get any "blown-around" dust out. Honestly, though, if I had so much dust inside there that it would swirl around when I used a blower, I'd have to think I'd been pretty sloppy with camera care. Here is the sequence I follow with sensor cleaning: On cameras that have a sensor shaking capability, I leave the cap or lens on, turn the camera face down, and switch the cleaning mode on and off a few times. This shakes the sensor and sometimes removes the dust speck. Next, I try the blower. After that, I'll resort to a Butterfly brush. Next is the SensorKlear pen. Finally I'll use Eclipse fluid on a rectangular swab, typically with a piece of PecPad wrapped over the end. If I can't see the problem speck easily with the naked eye, I'll use a SensorKlear loupe to see how I'm doing. If it's not visible with the loupe, it's not going to show up on an image. Each of these approaches has compromises. The blower's compromises are that it can potentially stir up problems; it won't remove anything that is stuck or smeared on; and you have to be careful not to touch the sensor with the blower tip. The Butterfly brush can do damage if pressed down too hard so that the casing around the base of the bristles touches the sensor. If you let any brush touch anything other than the sensor, you will likely smear something onto the sensor. Even touching the inside of the camera can do this (trust me, I don't make this up). The SensorKlear Pen wipes the surface. Is it just rubbing the problem into the surface? Cleaning fluids can leave residue; they aren't perfect either, but they sure make a sensor look clean. Once, when I was forced to use cleaning fluid on a greasy smear on a sensor, I found that for weeks afterwards, the sensor seemed to attract dust. The problem was not Eclispe, it was the smeared-on compound. The problem went away after a month or so, perhaps because the residue finally outgassed away. Considering the alternatives I just covered, you can see why I tend to start with the Giotto's blower. It is quick and simple, and it is low-risk if you just be careful and methodical. It does double duty for lens filter cleaning, and it blows hard enough to be good for getting dust out of crevices in the camera body. If you don't have anything for camera cleaning, I recommend the blower as your first purchase. If you want to keep going, I'd go next to purchasing a loupe designed for sensor cleaning. The built-in lights on the loops are fantastic when it comes to making surface smears or debris show up. Good luck! Tim

At the end of the day, this is a very simple thing that does a very simple thing. However, as a reviewer, I must go through the FURPS principle a) Functionality - to blow air (not aerosols - otherwise it will leave a film on your lens) - not under super high pressure, and the jet of air cannot be super-cooled (otherwise your glass may crack). Does it do the work? Absolutely - Score = 100 b) Usability - Requirement: Should be easy and intuitive to use. The "body" of the blower is the right size... it fits the average hand well. Nozzle is the right size. The legs of the rocket make it stand up, and the nozzle does not fall off. Much appreciated. Nozzle size (length) is also good. Score > 85 c) Reliability - Looks well made, even though I do not have statistical data on how quickly the rubber ball will crack, but I have used other products from Giotto (which were well made), so I am going to give this the benefit of the doubt. Score = 85 d) Performance - This is measure of how quickly it can keep blowing. Since this is a manual device, the only sensible measurement is how quickly it can refill the ball by itself, once the pressure is released. I found the refill time to be quite quick, so I will score it at 90 e) Scalability - where can this device be used? Since this is a general-purpose photography device, it can be used on many things. Score 85 Well, if you ask me why I did not score it at a full 100, I would say there is something missing - and that is a detachable brush. Since most of us will use this to blow dust from our lenses, a brush would be good

O melhor fucfuc para limpar as lentes e câmeras. Excelente e além de tudo é robusto e parece que vai durar um bom tempo!

Einsatzbereich: Persönlich verwende ich den "Super Rocket-air Blower" zum Reinigen der Tastatur und des Gehäuseinneren des PCs. Vor allem dient er dazu da, die Kühlerlamellen von Staub zu befreien. Das ist bei meinem Gehäuse immer ein Problem, denn der Rechner befindet sich auf dem Dachboden. Da es immer im Sommer unangenehm warm wird, habe ich zur Vermeidung von Hitzeproblemen mehrere Lüfter verbaut. Dementsprechend viel Staub wird auch angesaugt. Bisher verwendete ich immer Druckluftdosen, da ich aber den Rechner mehrmals im Jahr reinige, ist die "Super Rocket" auf lange Sicht einfach preigünstiger. Zudem ist der Bereich der von der Druckluft "erfasst" wird, größer als bei den Dosen. Eigenschaften und Handling: Die Rakete passt gut in die Hand (normalgroße Hände) und lässt sich auch gut zusammendrücken. Der Druck der erzeugt wird, reicht zumindest für meine oben beschriebenen Belange aus. Der Staub wird gut entfernt. Die Spitze ist ca. 5 cm lang, etwas länger (vielleicht 1 cm oder 2 cm) wäre vielleicht ein klein wenig besser gewesen. Auch Alternativspitzen wären eine Überlegung. Soweit ich weiß ist die Spitze abnehmbar, allerdings habe ich es selbst noch nicht probiert. Kann es auch im Moment nicht, die Rakete ist bei einem Freund, der sie gerade selbst ausprobiert. Das einzige worauf man etwas Acht geben sollte ist die "Bewegung". Da man die Rakete zusammendrücken muss um die Druckluft zu erzeugen, wird sie unweigerlich bewegt, zumindest die Spitze. Je nachdem wie gut man es selbst beherrscht mal mehr mal weniger. Das kann dazu führen, dass man gegen den Kühler stößt. Ist jetzt nichts weltbewegendes. Man sollte nur aufpassen nicht mit der Hand oder dem Arm "auszurutschen" und dann somit zu stark gegen den Kühler zu stoßen, das ist immer eine Belastung. Fazit: Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit der Rakete. Die einzigen zwei Kritikpunkte (Länge & Bewegung), sind für mich nichts weltbewegendes, denn ich kann trotzdem problemlos mein Gehäuse von Staub befreien. Von daher 5 von 5 Punkten. Und ja, wenn man möchte, kann man sie sich auch auf den Tisch stellen :)

Good quality, as expected.

Un outil indispensable pour les photographes, cette poire soufflante est bien puissante, parfait pour dépoussiérer ses objectifs photo, voir le capteur de ses boitiers.

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