fgianni
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I am just curious how do you guys clean the sensor, any advice on materials, procedure etc?
Sensor Cleaning?
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pfogle
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Sean Reid
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I haven't cleaned my R-D1 sensor yet but my friend Michael Reichmann reviewed a very good brush on LL sometime earlier this year (I forget the name) which seems to be the way to go. I keep meaning to get one because I have three, soon four, sensors to keep clean. My current method for cleaning the DSLRs isn't worth recommending.
Cheers,
Sean
Cheers,
Sean
fgianni
Trainee Amateur
Sean Reid said:
What do you use, spit on an hanky?
Jim Watts
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Sean Reid said:
These are the Visible Dust brushes: http://www.visibledust.com/index.html and although expensive come highly recommended by a number of people. They have full cleaning kits available as well.
Despite 9 months of use and many lens changes my R-D1 sensor does not seem to have picked up much dust and I have not needed to clean it yet. IMHO its best left alone unless an obvious problem. I think that as there is no "flipping" mirror or zoom lenses continually pushing the dust around it is less of a problem. Although I do remember someone posting a picture here of an R-D1 sensor that looked as if it had been out in a sand storm.
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Sean Reid
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fgianni said:
No, that would be primitive. I use a garden hose....
Sean
Note to all: That was a joke, don't try at home.
Jim Watts
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Sean,Sean Reid said:
I would have given it a go on my digital SLR (not the be beloved R-D1) but we have a Hosepipe Ban at the moment due to the drought. 😀
Jim
kbg32
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I use a very simple method. Get one of those bulb hand blowers from the camera shop. Mine looks like a 50's space ship. I remove the lens, turn the camera on to sensor clean, hold it upside down - lens mount facing the floor, and use the blower. The sensor on my camera is almost always virtually clean except for dust. I have yet to use any sort of sensor cleaner such as Visual Dust. Dust becomes more of a problem when I'm in the field and change lenses frequently. I always power down the camera when changing lenses to reduce any static charge from the sensor that might attract dust.
Cheers.
Cheers.
zeos 386sx
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As I've noted before, I'm relatively new to the digital end of photography so excuse me if this is a dumb question.
Is there a reason that a small vaccuum couldn't be used to clean sensors? If the sensor is holding a charge then ground it to get rid of the charge. That should make it easy to pick up dust with just suction - without even touching the sensor.
The only problem that I could see with this would be the possibility that grounding the sensor might fry it like a computer chip.
So, is it possible???
Is there a reason that a small vaccuum couldn't be used to clean sensors? If the sensor is holding a charge then ground it to get rid of the charge. That should make it easy to pick up dust with just suction - without even touching the sensor.
The only problem that I could see with this would be the possibility that grounding the sensor might fry it like a computer chip.
So, is it possible???
