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Sensor cleaning question

Started Mar 6, 2019 | Questions thread
miles green
miles green Veteran Member • Posts: 7,827
Re: Sensor cleaning question
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Wheatfield7 wrote:

I've always just blown dust off the sensor with canned gas. The mewling kittens get pretty worked up and start howling like a queen in heat on a catnip high, but I've not ever had a problem, and I don't expect to ever have one by doing this.

MMMMmmmmiiiAAAAoooowwwwaaaAAAooowww!

Just use some common sense and don't turn the can upside down and shoot liquid propellent into your camera.

Note, for fun, I did this very thing to an *istD a couple of years ago. There were no ill effects on the camera after the frost melted.

MMmmiiAAoowwwaaaAAowww!

There, that should summarize it.

The wet solution I have is 9 years old. I wouldn't use that either as I don't know if they expire. But I think any current cleaning solution & swab will be fine. If you don't find the lollipop that is. The truth is that I haven't had the need to wet clean the sensor in a long time as the K1 is very good at keeping its sensor dust-free. And the good people that did the upgrade to the K1ii did a thorough cleaning as well.

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