Problem with cleaning the sensor.

[tecboy]

I have cleaning my T3i and 70D so many times and never damaged the sensors. My personal experience is that too many dust in the sensors when I switching lenses. It just make it harder for me to clean it. I think those professionals have the same issue as I do. They admitted that they have a hard time cleaning my sensor.

Well honestly I'm just seriously confused now. In a previous posting you stated you had purchased a sensor cleaning kit but that you didn't have enough information to use the sensor brush, so you were representing this as something new to you. Now your stating that you do this all the time on several cameras. You state that you won't take it to a professional to do this because they might scratch the sensor and supposedly you have personal experience with this actually happening, and yet even though you don't trust someone who works on cameras for a living to do this for you, you somehow feel qualified to do it yourself.

As to the rest, well dust is a part of life. It comes in, it goes out, it does what it does. Personally if I'm not seeing it on the images, I think it's pretty silly to risk cleaning the camera in such a way that you might do some serious damage to it. Maybe that's just my personal experience. But hey, in the final analysis it's your camera, so whatever floats your boat I guess.

Huh? You are confusing me. When I shoot maximum DOF, dusts appeared. The bottom line is there were too much dust in the sensor that needed to be clean. I can't ignore it and keep shooting.

 

[robbins.photo]

I have cleaning my T3i and 70D so many times and never damaged the sensors. My personal experience is that too many dust in the sensors when I switching lenses. It just make it harder for me to clean it. I think those professionals have the same issue as I do. They admitted that they have a hard time cleaning my sensor.

Well honestly I'm just seriously confused now. In a previous posting you stated you had purchased a sensor cleaning kit but that you didn't have enough information to use the sensor brush, so you were representing this as something new to you. Now your stating that you do this all the time on several cameras. You state that you won't take it to a professional to do this because they might scratch the sensor and supposedly you have personal experience with this actually happening, and yet even though you don't trust someone who works on cameras for a living to do this for you, you somehow feel qualified to do it yourself.

As to the rest, well dust is a part of life. It comes in, it goes out, it does what it does. Personally if I'm not seeing it on the images, I think it's pretty silly to risk cleaning the camera in such a way that you might do some serious damage to it. Maybe that's just my personal experience. But hey, in the final analysis it's your camera, so whatever floats your boat I guess.

Huh? You are confusing me. When I shoot maximum DOF, dusts appeared. The bottom line is there were too much dust in the sensor that needed to be clean. I can't ignore it and keep shooting.

Well I guess we'll both walk away confused then.

 

[tecboy]

Oh yeah, I had never used a sensor brush, until Sparky suggested it. I was too afraid to use it.

 

[480sparky38 38]

People: We're discussing DUST and CAMERA SENSORS here. It's not brain science or rocket surgery.

It's like cleaning windows. Your sensor is covered with a plate of glass. If you clean it correctly, using the proper tools, you won't have any issues.

As there seems to be much intrepidation about cleaning sensors, I hereby offer up the following:



480sparky's Ten-Step Method to Cleaning Your DSLR Sensor:

Step one: Determine if you even have dust on the sensor. If so, proceed to the next step. If not, go shoot something and post it on TPF.
Step two: If your camera has it, utilize the on-board cleaning system.
Step three: Determine if you still have dust on the sensor. If so, proceed to the next step. If not, go shoot something and post it on TPF.
Step four: Use a Rocket Blower to dislodge as much dust as possible (or all).
Step five: Determine if you still have dust on the sensor. If so, proceed to the next step. If not, go shoot something and post it on TPF.
Step six (optional): Use a Rocket Blower again to dislodge as much dust as possible (or all).
Step seven (optional: Determine if you still have dust on the sensor. If so, proceed to the next step. If not, go shoot something and post it on TPF.
Step eight: Use a sensor brush. (No, not a 59¢ art supply paint brush! That's how you DO screw up your sensor, so don't try it.)
Step nine: Determine if you still have dust on the sensor. If so, proceed to the next step. If not, go shoot something and post it on TPF.
Step ten: Use a wet-cleaning swab method.

What are the proper tools? Simple: A RocketBlower, a sensor brush (I use an Arctic Butterfly, but what you use is up to you), and a wet-swab cleaning kit (I use VisibleDust stuff, but what you use is up to you.).

 

[Derrel]

"OMG,Mildred--was that a great bog ole' dose of sanity from 480Sparky?"

"Yes,Earle, it sure was!."

 

[manaheim]

lol Sparky you rock and you're totally right, but I do think you should interject a "Do you feel unsure about what you're doing or think it is not worth the risk? Then take it to a professional." at each point there.

I've cleaned a sensor before, but I'm a clumsy dumbass and I make stupid mistakes. Therefore I take my big expensive cameras in every few years for a nice cleaning. Costs me a whopping $75.

That and I don't do a lot of things that people do that get dust on their sensor anyway, so it's a very rare thing for me to have dust anyway.

Oh and I do the rocket blower thing and that fixes it 98% of the time.

 

[480sparky38 38]

lol Sparky you rock and you're totally right, but I do think you should interject a "Do you feel unsure about what you're doing or think it is not worth the risk? Then take it to a professional." at each point there.......

Not that I'm positive about this: But has anyone in the last four or five years posted on the forum, "I tried to clean my sensor and screwed it up!!!!"?

 

[manaheim]

Well... trying to prove a positive with a negative is a logical impossibility for one thing. "You cannot prove I'm god... therefore I am." ... "No one has ever said Monkeys fly, therefore they don't." etc.

And... I didn't do it with a sensor, but I did screw up my mirror once.