Experiences in home cleaning your samsung sensor

Hi,

i take good care of my cameras, so i dont need a cleaning very often and usually the incam cleaning do the job. In the past i made use of payd service if it was needed.  but...

i've just bought an NX20 at a very good price and in very good condition but with some dust on the sensor. I dont like the idea of part with the newcomer right now so i wondering if some here did the job itself and if any damage was ever done during that job.

In past i've seen pictures of sensor heavily damaged by a wrong cleaning operation and i wonder how sensible can be a modern samsung sensor.

Thank you all

Use sensor cleaning swabs.

http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Sensor-Cleaning-Liquid-Cleaner/dp/B0033UQM6K

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.

This could be good tool for removing small dust particles from sensor. I bought myself the SensorKlear II although I haven't used it yet. Enough light for to see the particles and some sort of loupe and steady hands required.

http://www.lenspen.com/?cPath=_1&products_id=SK-2-A&tpid=323

mordor_74 wrote:

Hi,

i take good care of my cameras, so i dont need a cleaning very often and usually the incam cleaning do the job. In the past i made use of payd service if it was needed. but...

i've just bought an NX20 at a very good price and in very good condition but with some dust on the sensor. I dont like the idea of part with the newcomer right now so i wondering if some here did the job itself and if any damage was ever done during that job.

In past i've seen pictures of sensor heavily damaged by a wrong cleaning operation and i wonder how sensible can be a modern samsung sensor.

Thank you all

I use a blower first and then swabs as has been suggested. I had to clean my sensor when I was shooting the falls because I made the mistake of using a non weather sealed lens.. and changed lens even though I thought it wasn't too bad.. left it pretty bad.

Just take your time and be patient with the cleaning and it works fairly well. You shouldn't need much pressure. The swabs usually come with a cleaning solution. I actually keep a couple in my bag with a small thing of solution, just in case.

I bought a cheap kit to start with when i started removing the dust with the swabs i found a lot of dust behind the metal frame that is around the glass in front of the sensor. It think that this is a side effect of the blower. Fortunately there was a stick with an adesive material in the kit. I moved the dust to the center of the sensor and removed with the adesive. I did all the operation very slowly, it tooks me over 2 hours, but the sensor is now perfectly clean and most important thing now i know how to do it by myself!

There are a lot of things that i learned after i switch to samsung and this is another, very important one!

PS: I found my self very comfortable with the sticker method. What i really need is a magnifier with led lights to help the process!

mordor_74 wrote:

I bought a cheap kit to start with when i started removing the dust with the swabs i found a lot of dust behind the metal frame that is around the glass in front of the sensor. It think that this is a side effect of the blower. Fortunately there was a stick with an adesive material in the kit. I moved the dust to the center of the sensor and removed with the adesive. I did all the operation very slowly, it tooks me over 2 hours, but the sensor is now perfectly clean and most important thing now i know how to do it by myself!

There are a lot of things that i learned after i switch to samsung and this is another, very important one!

PS: I found my self very comfortable with the sticker method. What i really need is a magnifier with led lights to help the process!

It may depend on the way the blower is used. I hold it upside down and blow from a distance. I then slowly swabbed as well. took me about 45 minutes. 
What ever method works for you though.. I don't think there is a right or wrong way.. (well there is a wrong way but I don't think either of us are doing the wrong way )

I tried this Sensorklear II by Lenspen. I do not recomment it. I had similar issues as this guy had:

http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/aargh-stay-clear-of-lenspens-sensorklear-ii_topic91515.html