digitalfx Posted June 19, 2014 Share #121 Posted June 19, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Everyone, please stop making this so difficult. Get some sensor swabs. Get some Isopropyl Alcohol 70%. (Leica uses this) Stop using Eclipse, Visible Dust products, and everything else! This stuff is snake oil. Don't be afraid to swab the sensor. Stop paying people to clean your sensor. It is just glass. But Rick, the "technicians" have super human powers...we mere mortals can't even begin to comprehend how to clean a sensor seriously though...3 hours my a** Learn to clean your sensor folks...if my 15 year old son can do it, so can you. It takes 10 minutes tops...if you are slow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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digitalfx Posted June 19, 2014 Share #122 Posted June 19, 2014 I think it's more the sheer sensitivity of the sensor and potential damage, as opposed to blowing dust off a lens element. I appreciate your analogy, but if I wash the car and it's not quite right, I can throw more soapy water over it until I'm happy, perhaps I'm just not confident enough, or perhaps heard a couple of horror stories that put me off . You are not cleaning the sensor Lee. You are cleaning a piece of glass that covers the sensor. Don't be afraid, its very easy and no more risk than cleaning your lenses. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about. I have been cleaning sensors for 10+ years, I regularly clean sensors that cost over $50,000...they are no different than cleaning the sensor in a $500 camera. My training consists of watching a Youtube video of a 15 year old kid showing how to do it. Ive cleaned the sensors in dozens and dozens of cameras literally hundreds of times and never once damaged a single one. don't fear the swab. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tookaphotoof Posted June 19, 2014 Share #123 Posted June 19, 2014 The hardest part for me was getting the bloody swabs and cleaning fluids before I left on my holiday. A guy from a large store in the Netherlands kept telling me how hard and dangerous it was and if I was sure I wanted to do it myself. Off course they offered to clean it for me for 40 something euro. If it wasn't for me needing it that same day I'd simply left without buying anything from him. Never had problems cleaning the sensor on any camera but the M8.2 I had. But I guess you can't fix a faulty sensor with a swab. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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