Cleaning the sensor on your DSLR camera

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Here’s a short video on how to clean your slr sensor

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25 Comments

tretreant on March 13th, 2011, 9:45 pm

@littlenikki24 no

littlenikki24 on March 13th, 2011, 10:06 pm

is it ok to just blow then by mouth?

6rellik6agem6 on March 13th, 2011, 10:11 pm

@heavenlyguardian

Nikon D70s

postal1911 on March 13th, 2011, 10:35 pm

great video thx

JesusWasNotHere on March 13th, 2011, 11:29 pm

A few good squirts xD

heavenlyguardian on March 14th, 2011, 12:19 am

Good video. Just curious, what camera is that?

remzai on March 14th, 2011, 12:35 am

75% of sensor cleaning kits r useless only 25% r good .. maybe less then 25%..
and good for them bcoz they make money from ppl who r newbie in dslr world.. first wat u should do go read about cleaning kits in forums or pro webpage where u can find truth about cleaning kits..

gimvarman on March 14th, 2011, 12:35 am

worked for me, thanks for the video, man!

gimvarman on March 14th, 2011, 1:16 am

worked for me, thanks for the video man!

twinxkie on March 14th, 2011, 1:45 am

@maria90810 do you have an idea how much if they’re going to clean it?

maria90810 on March 14th, 2011, 1:56 am

@twinxkie I have that problem too. I took my canon 50d to a camera shop yesterday and was told the dust is in the prism part of the viewfinder. As long as it doesn’t affect the picture quality if should be okay. But it bugs the heck out of me.

twinxkie on March 14th, 2011, 2:53 am

i still can’t remove the dust in my lens… :( i dont know if its in the sensor or what.. ive tried cleaning every the sensors, the lenses, the glass while the sensor is down nothing happened. :(

icedangel61 on March 14th, 2011, 3:19 am

With that tiny little blower?:D really?

remzai on March 14th, 2011, 3:55 am

lels its noobs cleaning style-if u see on ur photos black dots its means that u will not blow it with this sh*t-anyways if u want see does ur photos has black dots-try to take photos of white wall or yelow or lght blue or another light colors – and use aperture mode to focus everything no blurring- and u will see does sensor need to be cleaned good bcoz this mode blower or brush wont work….it but sometimes yeah its working…

PTKpaul86 on March 14th, 2011, 4:39 am

the sensor isn’t exposed , it is the high pass filter over it that you actually clean up .

ribbononmywristxx on March 14th, 2011, 5:23 am

@MerylFelstorm noo.. the cleaning mode tells you to turn if off after cleaning so that the mirror inside moves back into position.

pnmd on March 14th, 2011, 5:25 am

you the man! worked for me. thanks for talking about the mirror lockup function.

cyanatic on March 14th, 2011, 5:28 am

Thanks. This did work for me. Checked before and after shots (over-exposed bright cloudy sky at f22) and some nasty dust spots I had were gone. I was skeptical because I had heard that a blower rarely works on dislodging dust.

NetHawk41 on March 14th, 2011, 5:43 am

@MerylFelstorm I don’t think so… good question.

andystringer83 on March 14th, 2011, 6:14 am

Thank you.

MerylFelstorm on March 14th, 2011, 6:40 am

aren’t you suppose to turn off the camera when changing lens and opening it?

callmecoach1 on March 14th, 2011, 6:51 am

Worked great. Thanks for walking me through it!

Elliottebbs on March 14th, 2011, 6:56 am

coolio

NickyNeon on March 14th, 2011, 7:01 am

doooooost on ya sensah

eefjeeitje on March 14th, 2011, 7:17 am

finally it work for me , the best you can work is holding the camera under a lamp !!!!!! so you can see the sensor from above , and you can see the dust , what also helps is jusing an eartip, to remove the dust !!!

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