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Sensor cleaning?

Etherton

Etherton

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So who would have thought that Utah would be a good place to pick up some dust bunnies :p I called Canon and was getting ready to ship my 5D MKII off for a cleaning (sensor only $30 + shipping) and thought I would ask your opinions on do it yourself options? Worth it? Difficult? Getting ready to sell my MKII and wanted to knew owner not to have to worry about a dirty sensor...
 
I've been looking into this as well, as I'm considering a D600 which are notorious for needing a lot of sensor cleanings. :rolleyes:

Found a few videos on it - doesn't look too terribly difficult, but I'm assuming there is a lot of risk of scratching the sensor if it's not done right, so definitely want to be extremely careful when doing this.
http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...1j1.22.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.sUiEV4vlGmA
http://www.youtube.com/results?sear....20.20.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.6mpV-O4bboo
 
It is not worth sending your camera in, not because it doesnt work, they clean it well, but it takes a damn long time. A friend of mine sent in his nikon, and it took 2 months. Sure... it came back clean, but damn, that's 2 months!! It's only a matter of time till the camera needs another sensor cleaning.

I suggest DIY, a rocket blower isnt enough to take some miniscule particles out. A blower just blows the dust around, and may even get more dust in, it's not guaranteed to take out the dust.

I got myself an arctic butterfly, it's not cheap up front, but this has allowed me to do multiple sensor cleanings on the fly. It works very well and has never failed - every cleaning takes out every dust spot, no matter how small - in just a few seconds.

Swaps do work too and are an alternative as they are much much cheaper, but I hesitated going this route as I understand they can cause streaks on the sensor.

http://www.visibledust.com/products3.php?pid=3
 
After checking it out some more I am not so sure its my camera. When I swap lenses they disappear. I think I have some dust in my 24-105 :| Which I am sure is worse than on my camera sensor. Might be a few on the camera itself but not enough to worry about.
 
eth3ton said:
After checking it out some more I am not so sure its my camera. When I swap lenses they disappear. I think I have some dust in my 24-105 :| Which I am sure is worse than on my camera sensor. Might be a few on the camera itself but not enough to worry about.
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Best way to check is to set your camera to its smallest aperture F22 or F32 if it can get that small, point it at a blank white wall, or sky, and shoot. They disappear the wider the aperture, and non existant > f/4
 
F22 is the widest I have. On my 24-105 they are considerably worse than on my 100L and 14L. Might be time to look into the Canon CPS program.
 
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