Sensor Cleaning - a grump.

Ian Stuart Forsyth wrote:

peterpainter wrote:

Ian Stuart Forsyth wrote:

What I would recommend prior to cleaning your sensor is find 2 fan brushes, label one as sensor brush. Go about blowing out your mirror box and then charge your other brush by blowing air over it with a bulb. Wipe out all of your mirror box including your mirror including the sides top and bottom cleaning your brush several time by blowing over it.

When you have it clean while the mirror is up then go about cleaning everything under the mirror again blowing out the brush several times.

When you are done blow out the sensor and when you think you are clean enough start to use the sensor brush, charge it by blowing on it and then in a sweeping motion take 1 sweep and then clean the brush do this until you think you are clean.

A lot of times you will still have a blob that will stick to the sensor and for this I spot clean the blob with

https://lenspen.com/product/sensorklear-ii/

I would look at getting the kit with a loop makes it very easy to clean a sensor in half the time and half the problems.

If there is grease on the sensor is about the only time now that I would use a wet swab and even then to remove any of the streaks left I use the pen to clean it up.

Thank-you. I'll think about this one (I do have some fan brushes, never thought of using them for this purpose though.)

Like I said using a wet wipe is the very last thing I do when I am out of options.

For the 4 cameras that I run I have not wet wipe one of them is 5 years

That was my first ever 'wet clean.' I suspect, but can't prove, that it would have been unnecessary if I hadn't neglected taking care of the thing since its aperture block failure (but continued to use it in a rather grudging manner with manual lenses) - hence, less precautions, less use of the 'rocket air cleaner' and so on.

I think it definately needs more through cleaning inside the mirror box (as per your method) than it was getting - the dust from the sensor shake mechanism has to go somewhere and evidently my efforts had not been getting rid of it.