Problem With Dust

[Joshua Schroeder]

Does anyone have experience with using a do-it-yourself sensor cleaning kit? I haven't had any problems with dust on my sensor yet, but as you say, it is inevitable. I've seen the cleaning kits around, but I've also heard of a lot of people paying to have them professionally cleaned. Anybody have thoughts on which is a smarter route to take?

[NaturesPixel]

i think i have some welded dust bunnies on my sensor.. as my blower wont get them off.. and i checked out the price from Henrys here in town and they gonna charge me $90 CND

[Nicole]

Since I'm not really in a position to spend a huge amount getting my sensor cleaned, for the moment I'm just using a small blower to try to get the dust out. It doesn't work for everything (unfortunately) so I'm still left at times having to fix things up in photoshop. If I could only just get that one stupid piece of stubborn dust out I'd be very happy

[Fraggleroxer]

i keep one of thouse little ear cleaner-outers that u use on babies. i blow out my camera and lens everytime i change my lens.

easy way to keep it clean.

[smc1377]

Originally Posted by Joshua Schroeder

Does anyone have experience with using a do-it-yourself sensor cleaning kit? I haven't had any problems with dust on my sensor yet, but as you say, it is inevitable. I've seen the cleaning kits around, but I've also heard of a lot of people paying to have them professionally cleaned. Anybody have thoughts on which is a smarter route to take?

On the first page of this thread, I posted my experience with cleaning it myself with a kit from Micro-Tools.

One day, the dust just magically appeared. Must have been something I did. It was like someone just dumped a bunch of dirt on the sensor, it was so horrible. After many attempts of trying to blow off the dust, I bought the kit.

Worked great!

[Fraggleroxer]

if u recently bought the camera, i would check what kind of cleaning plan there is. i know that canon will clean your camera for free once a year. its always smart to take advantage of that kind of stuff.

zach

[Mtik]

Originally Posted by Fraggleroxer

if u recently bought the camera, i would check what kind of cleaning plan there is. i know that canon will clean your camera for free once a year. its always smart to take advantage of that kind of stuff.

zach

Really? That's a great tip. Any idea on where I can get some more information on that? Nothing readily popped up on Google.

[RainPacket]

Originally Posted by Fraggleroxer

if u recently bought the camera, i would check what kind of cleaning plan there is. i know that canon will clean your camera for free once a year. its always smart to take advantage of that kind of stuff.

zach

Not only that, but sometimes the store where you bought it offers a similar plan. I not only have the Canon cleaning once a year, but the store where I bought the camera /also/ offers a once-a-year cleaning, so I get two free per year. I gather this is not a terribly uncommon deal.

Granted, this only applies if you bought the camera at a local, photography-oriented shop, instead of from a Best Buy or whatever.

[foto3077]

If you are shooting at f-16 or f-22 in order to get a long shutter speed, why not use ND filters so you can open up the f-stop? Just an idea.