Digital sensor cleaning

[Atom1cKitten]

1:11 "Oh, Should we start again?" "OH, NO WELL YOU COULD!!!!"  me: O_O

[venyusz01]

These guys look nice.

The video is helpful

[sanecra]

whenever i take shots at night, grains appear on my images especially on dark areas.. does it mean that i should have my sensor cleaned? any suggestions?

[piperpilot26]

@sanecra thats image noise, not dust. Try bumping up your ISO a bit.

[loolehshooma]

Man o man, this was pretty dirty job!! you introduce more dust than removing it!!!

[shanesoc]

thanks

[hollyDTM]

lol, good video but come on, full Mic set up for a non edited video?

[FrenchGuitarStinger]

Hi. great video Thomas. Now, How do you totally service including changing rubbers on Canon SLR's like the canon AV-1 Canon EOS 630,650,750,850,500? Posting how to service a pentx k1000 and nikon SLR's would be great as well. Thanks for listening.

[walkabout16]

Now here's a guy who doesn't worry about high pollen counts outdoors lol

[sharpanator]

what about never change the lens, do you have still dust proplems?

[DavidTheDivine]

Then what's the point of having an interchangeable lens camera?

[sharpanator]

to have better picture quality, a decent viewfinder and less noise compared to bridge cameras? I wouldnt need interchangeabl lenses cause i only use the camera for ebay pictures and for vacation. I am satisfied with a lightweight little 17-50 standard Zoom Lens.

[canonjunkie86]

I wouldn't use methanol or ethanol, they leave too much residue on the sensor. You can see the residue here:

watch?v=nC9NM2yVVy4

[galileo021728]

don't use methanol, methanol causes permanent blindness. Use ethanol instead!

[rok133]

it causes blindness.......IF YOU DRINK IT doooh

not if you use 3 drops of it for cleaning

[ronphlf]

YOu need to edit out the bullshit.

[floydie123]

your video guy is gay

[Katfrench]

Nice video. Thanks. I agree with other commenters in that it's best not to clean your sensor outside or anywhere where you will get more dust on it. In fact, changing my lens in the trunk of my car (trying to avoid wind) is how my sensor got dirty to begin with.

[stevemiona]

Cleaning a sensor in the open air!!! No wonder he has to clean it every week. Cleaning should be done in a near dust free environment, even changing your lens out of doors can give you dust on the sensor.

[dryan2]

yay! HMB

[igoboing]

great stuff thx i thought i was capturing unidentified flying objects as i had some dust on my sensor and was made paranoid about cleaning it by my local camera shop chick who overcharges me for everything but iom off to get some sensor cleaning stuff thx =]

[sharpanator]

the ppl at local photo shop will also clean it by blowing air or use the things in the video. Maybe you are save when you send it to nikon for cleaning, hahahahahhaa

[niburu2012]

nice present did he got... lol

[zhangliubao]

oh i'm still using a film slr so far...

[ei5jf]

Thanks for posting.. Although I was re interate, definatly not to clean the sensor outside in the elements.. You are going to get loads more dust on the sensor doing it that way... !

[vovka3]

HEY!!! Diggntion shirt!!! that's the way to go!!!

:D

[vovka3]

Diggnation, is what I mean... :)

[lrb2934]

nice post!

can anyone tell how to clean the dunt in view finder of canon 400d??

[KaiserSozeSPF]

Good thing I never have to do this with my Olympus E3.

[netook8]

Yea that is why Olympus will be my first SLR. I am interested in SLR for the quality of the image at night, with lightning, stars, and auroras. non-SLR digital cameras can't get these with any real quality(they look very grainy, bleached, and almost invisible).

all Olympus cameras I have owned have lasted 5 times

longer than other brands

They were heavenly used in conditions varying from frigid cold to very hot and humid.

And the only big effect was the battery life.

[acidflush]

The gift at the end---was that Seagate a flash drive? Or a microdrive? Two entirely different things you know. Flash memory is solid state, and microdrives are just that---really small hard drives, moving parts and all.

[acidflush]

I always, always, always recheck my sensor by shooting a test shot and examing it on a computer monitor after cleaning it with a swab and Eclipse methanol fluid. Sure, it's usually cleaner after one pass with the swab, but sometimes you just end up moving dust around to less desirable parts of the frame.

[chargerjesse]

Just saved me $80. :)

[tuintu]

cleansing in outside dusty area :P

[cpta2020]

i would do it in a dust free area at first

[milapse]

I would be nervious to do this in full sunlight but he seems to not care that he's exposing the sensor to direct sunlight.

[acidflush]

What's wrong with exposing a sensor to direct sunlight? Please explain the effects of this to one's sensor.

[milapse]

I've learned since then that it's not that big of a deal but the lowpass filter IS sensitive to harsh light so you shouldn't let it get exposed for too long. He did do it all quite quickly so....

[ingolfzp]

That looked really simple! I'm a little less scared of doing this myself now!

[djrickd]

Very interessting video, i will do my first sensor cleaning today with Sensor Swap + Eclipse after 2 years and 72.000 images. Wish me luck ;-)

[MonkeyHugger]

Nice video, it's kool to see how easy it is. One of the main reason I'm disputing upgrading to a 400d atm, dust on the sensor would drive me nuts!

[muthafukyou]

don't worry, it still builds up.