5Dmk2 problem with dust.

kristian1 said:

i used sensor cleaning swab (not sure if it called wet cleaning)
today for first time , it does looked a bit scary , but i did it even
few times and each time dust moved from one point to other , not
close to perfect clean , will post examples.

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For this sort of dust, I find the static charge nylon makeup brush the best solution. It picks free moving dust straight up off the sensor while barely touching the surface. Just blow air through a nylon brush to charge it with static and wipe it across the surface. Remember that the image is upside down (but not reversed, from your view of the sensor, so dust on the bottom of the image is at the top of the sensor.

Hardly wet clean at all these days - maybe once in the past 18 months. Static brush is so easy and, none of the cleaning agencies admit, "dirt" cheap! ;-)

This all looks like stuff that a brush would easily pick up.
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kristian1 said:

that doesn't sound good , i thought if they clean it should be
perfect , but i guess not..

thank you !

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When it comes to dust, forget about the word "perfect". Just think "good enough" and you'll be much happier. There will always be some dust. Even when you get it 100% clean, all it takes is one lens change to get some dust in there.

That being said, it does seem like you've moved all of your dust to one corner, so you or someone else should be able to pick it up out of there.

Like everything, dust removal takes practice - and it's better if you don't even bother to get perfect results every time. It's better to walk away, than to push too hard and well ... PUSH too hard. CRACK!

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I had a pretty big dust problem immediately after receiving the camera. As in I got it on friday and it was FILLED with dust by monday even though it had only had one lens on it that whole time which was never dismounted. Tremendous (like over 100 dust spots on the focus screen, a few spots on the prism, and a few spots on the sensor.

Oddly this is my SECOND mk2 body and the first one never had that problem (in 4 months).

Anyway on monday I called support and sent it in to irvine. I got it back that same friday and the dust is gone (I think they replaced my focus screen too). no charge.

I know it sucks to have to send it in so soon, but I would just bite the bullet and do it

In my case I am very suspicious of the NEW 50/1.8 I bought from a local dealer to play with. I am wondering if it had been out on the shelves at times and collecting dust from other camera bodies. Thus I'm not sure it was really canon's fault, and they certainly honored the warranty very well by cleaning it out and replacing the screen at no charge.

George

It's called implied warranty. Written warranty or not, the maker is responisble for a defective product. This is the common law in USA and I'm sure elsewhere. In my experience, Japanese manufacturers haven't a clue about the concept.

Canon's using a technicality to evade their responsibility for shoddy workmanship is pure bull.

I know others here are suggesting to send it in, but I personally would never do it. I have already cleaned my 5DM2 using eclipse cleaner and a folded piece of pec pad around a strip of plastic made from an old credit card. It took three tries, but I got it spotless.

Unfortunately, 3 days later I have a couple of spots I can see if shooting at an high f-stop. It's still much better than it was originally however and I will probably wait another month to clean it again.

I just don't think it is worth it to send it in for repair unless cleaning the sensor gives you the willies. )

Alan

Boy, I have been toying with cross-grading to the 5d mark II for a while. Just need the extra boost in IQ and low-light, etc, but this has really bothered me quite a lot. I have an Olympus E-3, and am very happy overall with its performance, but it is a small sensor, and doesn't compete in a few key areas. One thing it does have, and plenty of, is a clean sensor, all the time! I have had no problems with any of my Olympus cameras, ever. I wish Nikon and Canon could learn a bit from Olympus, so I could consider adding them back to my system. Oh well, I'll stay and wait until they get it figured out. Overall, it looks like a killer system (unless you shoot in the rain, which I do all the time... Sorry, didn't mean to brag. There are a few things the Olympus cameras can brag about.)

I don't mind cleaning the sensor if I need to. But I don't want to clean the focus screen at all if I can avoid it. It is a lot more fragile than the sensor (albeit easier to just replace yourself).

For the sheer quantity of dust I had there was also the question of whether I could possibly get all the dust out of the cavity myself or if I would end up spending the rest of my ownership of the camera cleaning dust which canon could remove in one go.

Plus I had prism dust too... which I can't remove without getting way deeper into the camera than I ever want to.