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appraisal57:
How often does everyone have to clean their sensor?  Also, do you clean it or have the camera sent in for a professional cleaning?  I read on the internet on how to clean your sensor on your own.  I went to Wolf Camera to buy the supplys.  The salesman said they don't carry the sensor cleaning gear and does not recommend cleaning it on your own.  He suggested that he should have it professionaly cleaned for $75. 

leaf:
I have done it tons of times myself and have been very happy with the results.  Using just a blower will fix 90% of the dust problems, so even that much is a vast improvement and you should do yourself and has basically 0 risk involved.

A brush gets another 5% of the dust and if needed a swab method.  Those two methods sometimes add more dust that they remove though, if you do them wrong.  It takes a bit of practice but not really too hard.

Bateleur:

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How often does everyone have to clean their sensor?


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Whenever it gets so dusty I can't stand cloning the spots out of the sky.


--- Quote from: appraisal57 on October 24, 2008, 16:29 ---Also, do you clean it or have the camera sent in for a professional cleaning?  I read on the internet on how to clean your sensor on your own.  I went to Wolf Camera to buy the supplys.  The salesman said they don't carry the sensor cleaning gear and does not recommend cleaning it on your own.  He suggested that he should have it professionaly cleaned for $75.


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I clean it myself using the following:

1. Rocket blower. If that doesn't shift it then ...
2. Sensor cleaning brush. And if that doesn't shift it ...
3. Sensor swabs (But I've never got this far. Have bought a kit but not needed to use it yet).

I once took my camera into a shop for 'professional cleaning'. The sensor came out dirtier than when it went in. A total waste of money.

Just don't do what some people on the internet recommend, placing a piece of adhesive tape, sticky side down, on the sensor, then peeling it off. Yikes!

hali:
not sure if your camera is like the E series of Olympus, but here is what they warn.
use only mechanical blower. careful not to touch the sensor.
use the AC adaptor, if you use the battery and it runs out, the shutter will close and it could break the curtain and mirror.
do not use high pressure gas or spray, it will freeze the sensor.

i haven't done it myself, and since i don't have the AC adapter, i probably won't do it until i get one.

there is one part i don't understand. NEVER PUT THE MECHANICAL BLOWER BEHIND THE LENS MOUNT.
IF THE POWER TURNS OFF THE SHUTTER CLOSES AND WILL BREAK THE SHUTTER CURTAIN.

anyone knows what that means?  and can explain to an old fashioned 35mm
person about this. ya, this is my first digital SLR.

leaf:
it means, never stick the nozzle of the blower inside the camera.

The lens mount is where you mount the lens on your camera... so they suggest not sticking the blower past that.  When you put your camera in cleaning mode the mirror flips up so you can clean the sensor but if the power goes off then the mirror will flip down.  if there is something in the way, it will flip down and smash against whatever is in there (perhaps the blower) and break.

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