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Experiences in home cleaning your samsung sensor

Started Nov 26, 2015 | Discussions thread
otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: Experiences in home cleaning your samsung sensor

Glass is quite strong and not likely to be damaged unless one is very creative and reckless at the same time. Then again, people do all kinds of fun things with best intentions, personal story follows.

Borrowed camera to one friend, he apparently got some dirt or dust on sensor, saw it and wanted to remove it so he blew into sensor. Several miniature drops of spit landed on the sensor and dried up. I had to clean the sensor. First try blower, it did not help me but could remove loose particles. Then apply cleaning swabs (wet ones for dried liquids and similar) like VisualFX already said. This should clean the sensor up.

I know people who use microfiber cloth for cleaning everything, but I prefer blower + swabs.

Whatever you do don't blow from your mouth and don't use canned air (it can contain various particles, grease or oil in small quantities). Use cleaning products made for cameras.

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