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How to Clean dust off the sensor of the Canon EOS cameras
Mchael Cullen, Photographer
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 2:46 PM on 09.08.10 |
->> visibledust.com
Great products.
(though I usually wait until I'm at an event with CPS techs and have them do it as long as it's not too dirty) |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 2:48 PM on 09.08.10 |
| ->> I clean my sensor about once a month; but I never use those swabs. I just open the sensor, lie on my back, holding the camera pointing down so dust that's blown off the sensor will fall out of the camera, and use a bulb blower. It always works. But NEVER use compressed air in the cans. The liquid in the can will spray out and freeze your sensor. Not a good thing. |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 4:49 PM on 09.08.10 |
| ->> I do the same as Phil, just maybe more often, every morning when I start out on a shoot or the night before when I am getting my gear ready. |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington/Normal | IL | United States | Posted: 4:59 PM on 09.08.10 |
->> I used to hesitate to use the swabs, but with a little care and practice it isn't difficult. I did resort to getting the lighted magnifier so I could inspect and look for residual dust and streaking. The trick to keeping down the streaking seems to be to get the proper amount of fluid.
Wish I could do as George, but living in the middle of everywhere and close to nothing would mean shipping for cleaning. That would some sort of syncronization between the dirt/dust and shooting assignments. I've never been able to get the dust/dirt to cooperate. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 5:51 PM on 09.08.10 |
->> I 'wet' clean my sensors at least twice a year. I just discovered the pre-moistened swabs and had very good luck with them. I also found the new 'corner' swabs to be GREAT.
Phil I wish I had recorded the Nikon tech cleaning my D3! Everything that we EVER heard NOT to do this guy was doing. He would swab out the sensor then blow out the mirror box with a can of Dust-Off. Then wrap a piece of tissue paper around a wooden skewer and pick off specs of dust then blow out the box again with the canned air.... At one point I asked him about all the warnings and he just looked up and smiled. SERIOUSLY he just smiled and went back to cleaning a pile of bodies with the canned air, a box of wooden sticks, a bottle of cleaning fluid and a stack of tissue paper.
These guys while doing all the 'bad' stuff, were meticulous in their approach. I must have watched them wipe down the lens mounts 3 or 4 times. Each time with a fresh tissue and looking to see if the tissue was clean or had any dirt or grease on it after each use. I came away from that session feeling a lot LESS worried about the innards of my cameras.
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N. Scott Trimble, Photographer
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Lake Oswego | OR | USA | Posted: 5:52 PM on 09.08.10 |
| ->> If when you were a kid, and played OPERATION the game and always failed, don't use the swabs... : ) |
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