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Old 05-02-2008, 03:35 PM
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Well......

We've tried them all.... But what we like to use (for many reasons) is a combo of sensor brushes and wet sensor swaps.

The brushes are statically charged and when gently wiped across the surface they pick up the loose dust. If anything remains then we do a wet wipe. This involves sensor swaps and sensor cleaning fluid. Basically you wipe all over the sensor with a wet swap, then use a dry one to dry it off.

We've been doing this procedure for years now (our studio was the first in Australia to use digital cameras commercially) and we find that as long as your very careful the sensor is never damaged. Afterall it is just a piece of MC glass in front of the sensor which you are cleaning.

If you do a search for "sensor brush" you will find lots of info on the web.

What we tend to do mainly now is to skip the brush step and go straight to the wet wipe. This is because most canon cameras use a oil/grease inside the sensor chamber. It is all to easy for this oil to get on your sensor brush and then onto your sensor. Once your brush has the oil on it its almost a bin job. Sensor brush sell fluid for cleaning the brushes but it didn't work for us. The wet swabs easily get the oil off the sensor though.

Even with all this cleaning procedure we still like to get all our cameras cleaned at Andersons once a year, and then we find it easy to keep them clean.

It really is the worst part about digital cameras.

Dave.
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