Cost of professional sensor clean?

[JeffinDEN]

Can I throw in an alternative? I use canned air. I always have a bottle in my camera bag. Works great, is very cheap and you don't touch the sensor.

Roel.

Roel,
Canned air has oil as a lubricant and freon for propellent. Neither one of those is good for your camera. Sure it might blow some dust out, but you really should not be putting oily air onto the sensor, and around the shutter mechanism. Call Canon or Nikon if you don't believe me.

[b777]

On second thought, I will just hold off on the clean and shoot with f10 or less.

[gocaps16]

I just lick the dust out using my wet tongue. That's helps alot.


Kevin

[Diezel]

Roel,
Canned air has oil as a lubricant and freon for propellent. Neither one of those is good for your camera. Sure it might blow some dust out, but you really should not be putting oily air onto the sensor, and around the shutter mechanism. Call Canon or Nikon if you don't believe me.

Thanks for your information Jeff. Did not know that.

And I thought that was such a great solution to the problem as you can clean you sensor in the field if necessary. I've been doing this for two years now, hope nothing is damaged. The strange thing is that they recommended and sold me this in my local photo shop.

Roel.

[HelmutS]

The better method if you just want some air blowing over the sensor is to use a quality rubber blower (Giotto Rocket, for example).

That way you have no fliud, gas or oil involved. But be warned - cheap rubber blowers will spit out rubber particles that stick to the sensor like glue.

[JeffinDEN]

Thanks for your information Jeff. Did not know that.

........ The strange thing is that they recommended and sold me this in my local photo shop.

Roel.

No problem Roel, It is a hold over from the film days I'm sure. But even then they did not recommend getting that stuff on your mirror from the lens mount side, but it did knock loose bits of dust and film that was in the body from the film loading side.

Eclipse and a Pec Pads are the easiest do it yourself method. Any shop you take it to is going to do the same thing anyway. It only takes about two minutes.