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Old 16-03-2016, 09:12 AM
glend (Glen)
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Dunk, even though it would be a very similiar sensor I would not want to risk it. The one I have working is my fourth attempt, I think you might have seen an image from the first one that I had paid CentralDS to do. In hindsight it was close to being ok, but I tried to clean up the stuff they left on the surface and that ruined it - clearly their chemical stripping process did not work very well, at least on the 450D sensor. They did refund my payment in the end.

I found a low cost Chinese source for the sensors, and they were OEM, so I was paying about $38USD for each one I ordered, so the cost didn't bother me too much. I gave up on JTWs recommended 'glass polishing' method as it was messy and I think it resulted in shorting out of a sensor. The method that did work was the old scraping off of the CFA and microlenses, and I used a couple of different modified paddle pop stick tools for that. I broke a chip wire (the little gold ones) on one sensor that was looking promising, and I don't have the tools to try and repair that one.

Of course, never one to leave this sort of thing alone, I might try just one more in months to come, to get one without a bad column, but i could well end up with another failure. I should probably just cut my losses and settle with imaging with this one.
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