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bikeit

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Anyone here have any issues with oil on their camera sensor, have had my camera a few months and its been cleaned three times? had my D5300 a year and never cleaned the sensor once.
 
Marilynne

Marilynne

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My D7100 is just over one year old and cleaned the sensor once, same on my D5100, once in a year.
 
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480sparky

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"3 times" is a relative term.

How long you've had the camera isn't as important as the number of shutter actuations. As well as how you change lenses, how often, and what are the conditions like when you do?

A casual shooter who fires off 30 or 40 frames on a weekend might raise an eyebrow, but a pays-the-rent pro shooter would be ecstatic if it only needed cleaned 3 times.
 
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bikeit

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Thought three times was a bit too much, the reason i think it is oil is because i have used the blower on it several times and used four swabs and there is still spots on the sensor.
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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bikeit said:
Anyone here have any issues with oil on their camera sensor, have had my camera a few months and its been cleaned three times? had my D5300 a year and never cleaned the sensor once.
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What makes you think it's oil?

There have been periods I've been able to go months between sensor cleanings and periods I've needed to do them pretty much daily, my D7100 included; it just depends.
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480sparky

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bikeit said:
I would take around 200 shots a week, what do you mean by how i change the lenses?
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Do you hold the camera flange down when changing lenses? Is it windy & dusty when you change lenses? Is your camera regularly without a lens for long periods of time?
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

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bikeit said:
If its not oil what could it be then? what do you clean your sensor with Horoscope Fish?
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Without reason to think otherwise, it's probably the common dust mote fouling your sensor.

For cleaning I start with a rocket blower and if that doesn't do it I move to a sensor brush. The sensor brush nails it probably 95% of the time or better. For those times the sensor brush does NOT do it, I move to a wet cleaning using Eclipse swabs and fluid.

Rocket Blower

Sensor Brush

Pre-moistend Swabs (for wet cleaning (you can also get dry swabs and bottles of fluid if you want.))
 
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Blacktop

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The Fish is right. Sometimes i would go months without cleaning the 7100 and sometimes i'd get spots every week. If you're going to shoot a DSLR you may as well get used to it.

I think this past problem Nikon had with the D600 oil/shutter debris issue has some people on edge every time they see a dust spot.
 
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bikeit

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Guys looking to try the Copperhill products anyone know where they can be purchased, their own site seems to be down. Google never found anything.
 
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NIKONIAN_DREAMWEAVER

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Horoscope Fish said:
Without reason to think otherwise, it's probably the common dust mote fouling your sensor.

For cleaning I start with a rocket blower and if that doesn't do it I move to a sensor brush. The sensor brush nails it probably 95% of the time or better. For those times the sensor brush does NOT do it, I move to a wet cleaning using Eclipse swabs and fluid.

Rocket Blower

Sensor Brush

Pre-moistend Swabs (for wet cleaning (you can also get dry swabs and bottles of fluid if you want.))
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That's quite a high price for that sensor brush!
 
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NIKONIAN_DREAMWEAVER

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Another thing that may help you, is to set the sensor clean feature on your D7100. It's in the startup menu; P. 313/314 of the user manual.

I set mine for automatic cleaning at startup and shutdown. It seems to help...
 
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