Sensor Cleaning - what do you use ?

Jase · 23 Aug 2007 at 21:13

Just wondering what you guys use to clean the senors in your DSLR's that have dust on them. I noticed I had some dust the other night after shooting some landscapes at F22.

I bought some sensor swabs and liquid for cleaning but it didn't go too well.. first attempt made things worse, following 3 attempts just seemed to move the marks around, finally on the 4 or 5th attempt I got it OK but to be honest would prefer not to do it this way again. Surely there's something nice and easy ?

Jase

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 23 Aug 2007 at 21:46

Medium sized rocket blower.

wez130 · 23 Aug 2007 at 22:08

Fstop11 said:
Medium sized rocket blower.

same

vanandjuanunited · 24 Aug 2007 at 10:05

wez130 said:
same

Same

sean · 24 Aug 2007 at 16:08

Same, but there's now a (relatively!) huge hairball clinging to the sensor and refusing to let go. I've heard Sensor Swabs with Eclipse Fluid are the best combo to go about removing it?

Jase · 24 Aug 2007 at 20:29

Think I'll keep an a watch of the dust and clean more often now.. hopefully won't have to do it when I get the 40D but we'll see...

It was the Sensor Swabs with Eclipse 2 fluid I used. Did a good job in the end but I wasn't that good !

Jase

MrScott · 24 Aug 2007 at 20:58

For small, easily movable dust, blower.

For larger, persistant stuff I've got a product called Dust-Aid, which is basically very low strength adhesive pads to lift the dust off the sensor. It's pretty effective and nowhere near as fiddly as swabs and such.