Author Topic: Sensor Cleaning with Copperhill (Read 8640 times)

leaf · « **on:** October 23, 2006, 08:28 »

I finally have a 'more or less' clean sensor. There was so much grunge and grime, i think it will take a while before it is spotless, but there is none the less probably 10,000 less dirt blobs on there now, than there use to be.

Here are two pics of before and after.. this is a 100% cropped view of the left hand side

Freezingpictures · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2006, 08:34 »

Wow, I thought my sensor was dirty

dbvirago · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2006, 08:53 »

Did you let your dog drag it up the beach with the lens off?

Seriously, that's a great endorsement for the product. I'm still using a blower and photoshop, but once I found out how to minimize getting the sensor dirty, I don't have near the problems I did when I first started.

leaf · « **Reply #3 on:** October 23, 2006, 09:01 »

well it DID take 25 swipes of the cleaner.

I bought the camera used.... i don't think the guy before me cleaned it too often. Surprising as he was a professional photographer and said he used the camera the same day i bought it.

Perhaps he takes photos at 2.8 all the time.

Yeah I think it is a pretty good cleaning solution. If i had used the packaged and prepared sensor swabs from photosol, it would have cost me quite a few $$.

I was so impressed with the results that I decided to offer the products in a little web shop on my proffesional website. The best place to get the stuff is from the copper hill site, but if you live in norway, like I do, not everything is available internationally from the copperhill site. Plus it takes a little longer for shipping... so now it is available in norway too

dbvirago · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2006, 12:29 »

So what did you use for swabs?

leaf · « **Reply #5 on:** October 23, 2006, 13:18 »

pec pads with the copperhil sensor swipe (which is basically a spatula, which you attach the pec pad to)

yingyang0 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2006, 00:00 »

Everyone is always worried about using them, but I have no problem. As long as you follow the directions it is completely safe. All the "horror" stories are from people that squirted a lot of the ethenol onto the swabs and soaked the components. (directions say 2-3 drops).

leaf · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2006, 00:57 »

if you use photosol sensorswabs you have to drip them with exclipse cleaner as well.

and yes, two small drops is ample.

chellyar · « **Reply #8 on:** October 24, 2006, 02:22 »

Quote from: leaf on October 23, 2006, 09:01

Perhaps he takes photos at 2.8 all the time.

That's not as silly as it sounds though, I normally shoot at F/2.8-F/4 and ignore sensor dust untill I've got a studio session booked them whip out the sensorswabs and eclipse... In bright sunlight I might get as small as F/5.6.

For studio portraits I'm workin at F8-11 which shows up my lack of general camera care like crazy. :-).

leaf · « **Reply #9 on:** October 24, 2006, 07:28 »

well i agree it isn't uncommon to almost always shoot unter f/8 or f/5.6. I shoot a lot of interior architecture at f/11 and the first pictures i did looked the the walls had freckles. ugggh

Pichunter · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2006, 12:45 »

Thanks for the info on Copperhill, I also went on the Eclipse fluid site and they said that Pec Pads are NOT reccomended for sensor cleaning. They say to use Sensor Swabs.
Here is the linkhttp://www.photosol.com/padproduct.htm

Is the general consensus that pec pads are ok

Greg Boiarsky · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2006, 13:26 »

Pec Pads are just fine, and a whole lot cheaper than Sensor Swabs.

Quote from: Pichunter on October 25, 2006, 12:45

Thanks for the info on Copperhill, I also went on the Eclipse fluid site and they said that Pec Pads are NOT reccomended for sensor cleaning. They say to use Sensor Swabs.
Here is the linkhttp://www.photosol.com/padproduct.htm

Is the general consensus that pec pads are ok

Striker77s · « **Reply #12 on:** October 25, 2006, 13:52 »

Pec Pads work very well and have been proven by thousands of people. That absolute worst that could happen is it could leave some fibers behind. I have never heard of a single complaint of that happening but that is the reason Sensor Swab is claiming they are better. Pec Pads won't come close to actually damaging anything.

Mark

CJPhoto · « **Reply #13 on:** October 25, 2006, 14:11 »

THe other advantage of Sensor swabs are they are made in a sealed chamber whereas with pecpads, if you put your finger on the bit that touches the sensor when wrapping the pecpad, then you will be wiping on finger grease.

leaf · « **Reply #14 on:** October 25, 2006, 14:21 »

it isn't that hard not to touch the 'sweeping part' of the pec pad though.

I used 25 passes the other day and still had a few goobers on my sensor. I don't want to calculate what it would of cost to use sensor swipes.

leaf · « **Reply #15 on:** October 25, 2006, 14:24 »

actually i do want to calculate that.

it would have taken 2 boxes... $US 91.90

instead i spent $30 on a kit that is still good for another 75 passes

Pichunter · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2006, 14:54 »

Thanks Leaf, just placed my order at Copperhill

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