SmellyTofu wrote:
Is that the cheapest you've seen them go for? or it's just as cheap going to a shop in the city and buying it there?
AFAIK, no-one sells eclipse or pec-pads in the city.
I have had to clean mine once only, and at the time it was quite a leap of faith, but the dust was nothing that a blower brush couldn't remove.
The trick as I remember it with mine was not to have the body flat on it's back but to tilt it downward as otherwise the dust just circulated and fell back down on the sensor.
Maybe that means I gotta get out and shoot more! You know what they say: if you didn't get dirty you didn't have fun. Except for cricketers who can play all day dressed in white and come off the field as white as when they walked out... but I digeress...
JamesGreen wrote:
The trick as I remember it with mine was not to have the body flat on it's back but to tilt it downward as otherwise the dust just circulated and fell back down on the sensor.
Petteri wrote an artice on cheaper alternatives to commercial sensor cleaning brushes here:
http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/a_Brush_Your_Sensor/a_Brush_Your_Sensor.html
But would you trust a brush? sounds too good to be true. I'd like to know how Canon does it though. Do they have some blast of air or do they do something else? It's unfortunate that you can't see them do the job for yourself (like you probably could with a car repair) so even you can do it.
You probably can if you look around. L&P used to sell a digital camera cleaning kit (not the cheapo ones you see around). It was designed to clean the sensors in digital backs.
