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Cleaning CCD/Sensor
Realised recently with sky shots, or wall shots all these artifacts showing up. I've just ordered a blower, spatulas and a compressed air canister. Is compressed air a good or bad idea? It mentions being suitable for cleaning sensors. So just wondered what everyone else is using?
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Bad, bad, bad idea, never ever spray it in your camera. It generally contains a propellant that will cover the sensor. The only way to use it is with a sensor vac. But I've not found them much good.
Use your blower to remove any loose dust, then if you have anything stuck on there, then use the swabs with a suitable cleaning liquid.
I use intemos swabs which work really well, but seem difficult to order. Also for loose particles an arctic butterfly.
Use your blower to remove any loose dust, then if you have anything stuck on there, then use the swabs with a suitable cleaning liquid.
I use intemos swabs which work really well, but seem difficult to order. Also for loose particles an arctic butterfly.
I use the blower & then the Sensoklean pen, with the magnifier.
It was Sarah (Whipspeed)who put me onto it
Only ever used it once, since Sarah herself cleaned my sensor.
All the D.B's disappeared, which were showing up on my macro shots, in the plain backgrounds of butterflies mainly
Adrian
It was Sarah (Whipspeed)who put me onto it
Only ever used it once, since Sarah herself cleaned my sensor.
All the D.B's disappeared, which were showing up on my macro shots, in the plain backgrounds of butterflies mainly
Adrian
These are what I used on my 40D. Easy to use, good results!
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Eclipse fluid and sensor swabs (PecPads cut into strips and attached with a small rubber band to a sensor swab that I have taken the old material off). Never had a problem doing it, and results take seconds of cleaning, and the sensor is 100% clean. I clean mine, and others sensors regularly. It also saves time messing around with cleaning up the image in post-production.
I've got to the point with my 5D of being so fed up with the amount of dust bunnies that I've decided to clean it once, and never taken the lens off again. I know this sounds crazy, but the lens I have is the 24-105 L and it's so good that I don't need anything else for my wedding photography. I also use a 40D with my 1.4 50mm on, and again, hardly ever take it off. Like NickParry, I use Eclipse and sensor swabs from CopperHill, but also have had great success with Dust-Aid - a sort of rubber pad on a stick that just grips the dust off, with no liquid or residue in sight. Great!
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