A couple of weeks ago I noticed a couple of dust spots on a blue sky shot at f16.
Yesterday I decided to get out my generic blower and see if they would move,,,, big mistake.
I ended up with about a thousand spots, not sure if they came out of the blower, or they were dislodged from the mirror box and ended up sticking to the sensor.
But woefully they ended up there. Here is a cloudy sky shot after trying the blower ( silly me didnt take a test shot before I did the blower)
Shot at f22.
I paid a visit to my local camera shop today, if they did sensor cleaning, I was going to get them to do it, but they said no one local did sensor cleaning and I would have to send it away to get it done.
They had the cleaning gear for sale, so I armed myself with what I thought I would need and headed home to give it a go.
I bought a Lenspen Sensorklear Loupe Kit, same as this one - 100 Genuine Lenspen CCD Sensor Klear Loupe KIT FOR Nikon Canon Sony Camera | eBay
And also a box of Green Clean wet and dry swabs, and a large Giotto's Rocket blower.
It all cost me plenty of money but I wanted to make sure I could do it properly.
I gave it another blowout with the Rocket blower first, then used a wet swab followed by the dry one, as per the directions.
This is a test shot after the first go, a lot of them were gone but I wanted it cleaner than that.
I then tried to get the remaining spots off using the loupe and lens pen provided. I didnt have much luck using this method.
The loupe is great, I could see the spots but the lens pen wasn't very good ( maybe it was my technique that sucked who knows)
Anyway, I found I moved the spots around and added a few more, so I opened another set of swabs, and gave it two cleans with the same set of swabs, using the loupe I could see what I was doing which was a big help. Without the loupe and my poor eyesight it was a bit hit and miss, so the loupe was worth buying.
This is a shot after the last clean. I still have a couple of spots there, but I will leave it for now, and use it for a while and see how it goes.
The blurry patch at the bottom of this shot is part of my TV antenna.
Yesterday I decided to get out my generic blower and see if they would move,,,, big mistake.
I ended up with about a thousand spots, not sure if they came out of the blower, or they were dislodged from the mirror box and ended up sticking to the sensor.
But woefully they ended up there. Here is a cloudy sky shot after trying the blower ( silly me didnt take a test shot before I did the blower)
Shot at f22.
I paid a visit to my local camera shop today, if they did sensor cleaning, I was going to get them to do it, but they said no one local did sensor cleaning and I would have to send it away to get it done.
They had the cleaning gear for sale, so I armed myself with what I thought I would need and headed home to give it a go.
I bought a Lenspen Sensorklear Loupe Kit, same as this one - 100 Genuine Lenspen CCD Sensor Klear Loupe KIT FOR Nikon Canon Sony Camera | eBay
And also a box of Green Clean wet and dry swabs, and a large Giotto's Rocket blower.
It all cost me plenty of money but I wanted to make sure I could do it properly.
I gave it another blowout with the Rocket blower first, then used a wet swab followed by the dry one, as per the directions.
This is a test shot after the first go, a lot of them were gone but I wanted it cleaner than that.
I then tried to get the remaining spots off using the loupe and lens pen provided. I didnt have much luck using this method.
The loupe is great, I could see the spots but the lens pen wasn't very good ( maybe it was my technique that sucked who knows)
Anyway, I found I moved the spots around and added a few more, so I opened another set of swabs, and gave it two cleans with the same set of swabs, using the loupe I could see what I was doing which was a big help. Without the loupe and my poor eyesight it was a bit hit and miss, so the loupe was worth buying.
This is a shot after the last clean. I still have a couple of spots there, but I will leave it for now, and use it for a while and see how it goes.
The blurry patch at the bottom of this shot is part of my TV antenna.