Roy, can you post it here so all of us can benefit from it?
Roys better late than never thread.
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Roy, can you post it here so all of us can benefit from it?
Don Kuykendall_RIP
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I will start a sticky for Sensor Cleaning. A general one.
Just have to figure out where to put it.
http://nikonites.com/general-digital-slr-cameras/18993-how-check-clean-your-sensor.html#post235499
Just have to figure out where to put it.
http://nikonites.com/general-digital-slr-cameras/18993-how-check-clean-your-sensor.html#post235499
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looks like i need more cleaning, 
i now don't know if i am pushing the spots around on the sensor or am i getting new ones, cleaned it again and did a test today and can see about 20 spots ( 4 on the previous test), do D7000's suffer from oil splatters like the D600????
i now don't know if i am pushing the spots around on the sensor or am i getting new ones, cleaned it again and did a test today and can see about 20 spots ( 4 on the previous test), do D7000's suffer from oil splatters like the D600????
looks like i need more cleaning,
Oh no! What you are describing is what happened to me while trying to clean my D600's sensor. If you do more than one wet cleaning in a sitting, make sure you keep changing the wand during the successive wet cleanings so you don't recontaminate the sensor in another area with a dirty swab.
If I am not mistaken, I believe the reference to the D600 thread was my thread. In the thread many members offered a variety of methods to clean the sensor. [MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] you might want to go through that thread--maybe you can quote some of the members' responses and add them to your sticky? There is some really good info there which was submitted by others.
Here is the YouTube video that @BackdoorHippie posted in my thread. It is very detailed. The only problem I encountered is that while performing a wet cleaning, I held a small flashlight in one hand while using the Sensor Swab in the other. It was really difficult to see the sensor because the hand holding the wand blocked so much of my view with the flashlight. Getting the edges of the sensor clean was very difficult. You don't want the wand to touch whatever is holding/supporting the sensor around its edges because it may catch a piece of lint from the wand.
thanks hark, i do change the cleaning pad, i have a flashlight which i put on my head so i have both hands free, its strange i have spots now where i didnt have before and these are different looking, its a darker spot inside a lighter spot. i will read up and watch the clips again to see if i am doing something wrong?
Scott Murray
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Sounds like wet dust that is now stuck to the filter of the sensor.
Roy, I only found 3 of the 4 that MikeW found. If you look closely at both of our photos, it almost looks like there is a circular splotch on the sensor. So I've got to ask...did you clean the sensor with some type of sensor wand and go in a side-to-side motion, or did you go in a circular motion? That pattern might be from whatever you used for your test shot, too, so it's possible it isn't really on the sensor. I adjusted the shadows in PSE10 to bump up the spots in this photo just like I did with my D600 test shots.
I do have a huge package of Pec-Pads left since I don't think I'll be needing to clean my sensor quite so often with this D610. If you want some, I can put several in a zip lock bag and send them to you--you'd need some type of sensor wand to attach them to. I reused a Sensor Swab wand for mine. First I saved the used Sensor Swab material and removed it from the wand. That's what I used to create my pattern. For the FX size, 1/2 a Pec-Pad was exactly what I needed. I folded it exactly the same way as the Sensor Swab making sure a little hung over the edges of the wand just like the original Sensor Swab did, then I rubber banded it to the wand. If you are interested in some Pec-Pads, you can PM me.
At least yours doesn't look nearly as bad as my D600 did!
Michael J.
Senior Member
I like both capture a lot. Very beautiful landscape/lake-scape