I have two Sensorklear brushes, one I have tried and the other remains unused. I had horrible luck with it. All it did was make my sensor more dusty. I understand how to use it. talked with the manufacture and have cleaned my sensors hundreds of times but with this item, that many really like, I have had no luck.
After googling for reports of Olympus' effectiveness, what I see is that Olympus is about 50% effective, Canon about 10% effective, Pentax and Sony completely ineffective.
I'm thinking that flipping the camera mount down and open over something sticky and running the cleaning cycle after each session might be the way to go. Run a cleaning cycle, give it a bulb blow, run a cycle again, perhaps.
I've seen some other postings that simply running successive cleaning cycles is ineffective.
However, I've personally never been bothered much by dust on the sensor anyway. I just think, "Man, am I glad I don't have to use Spotone anymore," and hum a tune while I clone out a dust spot.
jamato8 wrote:
There are times when something actually gets stuck to the sensor. How are you supposed to clean this then? Does anyone have an idea? Sending a camera back Canon is not an option when in the field in a remote area and frankly I don't want to send a camera in for something I can do.
I still use wet cleaning, but it sucks. I can clean a 1Ds2 at least 3x faster than a 1Ds3.
jamato8 wrote:
I have used my own method of wet cleaning for a long time but what do you mean that it is 3X fater than a 1Ds3?
I can do a 1Ds2 with a single wipe, most of the time. The 1Ds3 is way more work, because there's simply no way of avoiding the sticky goo along the edges of the sensor which adds to the mayhem.
stanj wrote:
Not on a camera with a dust shaker, since those were introduced less than 2 years ago.
Well yes "dust buster" was introduced less than 2 years ago (1D3) from last May and I was doing it the same exact thing without problem but with less frequently as before
BTW, I don't use the brush for sensor cleaning but uses only the other end which suppose to be some sort of wet cleaning. It works great so far. YMMV
Ron Hew wrote:
Well yes "dust buster" was introduced less than 2 years ago (1D3) from last May and I was doing it the same exact thing without problem but with less frequently as before
BTW, I don't use the brush for sensor cleaning but uses only the other end which suppose to be some sort of wet cleaning. It works great so far. YMMV
I should have said that I find cleaning crop 1D cameras is easier than 1Ds cameras (my original statement always talked about 1Ds series, but I want to make it more clear). The way the sensor is laid out it's less accessible and it has only gotten worse.
My brand new Canon 5D mark II has a problem.
From time to time when I press the live view mode button the display reads:
Err 20
Shooting is not possible
Turn the power switch
to OFF and ON again
or re-install the battery
Also this happening sometimes when I press AF-ON button while in live view mode.
This happening as well in view finder mode shooting when I press the shooter button.
After this happened I have to remove the battery to reset the camera.
I've tried different lenses and different compact flash cards, but the problem persisted.
Is anybody there with the same problem ?
I am shipping it back to Ritz for exchange
That kind of thing never happens to me with any camera, but some other 5D2 users have been getting mysterious Err22 indications. Kind of like the Err99 that bothered some early 20D users (not me, though).
allen's camera in PA ( http://www.allenscamera.com/) has 24 5D2/24-105 kits in stock as of one hour ago, and they're getting a shipment of 5D2 bodies in monday.
there appears to be no waiting list, because i just called and ordered a body out of the blue.
Quick excursion out with the new camera and tripod. Sufficed to say my computer does NOT like 11 full res 21mp images stitched together. Not one bit. As a little adition re: the camera.. Live view + That new LCD + 10x zoom + Manual focus is just made of absolute win. If you've got the time to use it all it's just fantastic.. No surprises what so-ever getting home and uploading them.. Now if it looks right on the back of the camera, it is right!
It's in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Typically a few people around here who can afford such cars, though the same cars on the forecourt that were circa £130k when i was there last are now £90k ish!
what is the method of using an external storage device by remote? I read that the usb in the camera can be used to record wireless to an external hard drive.
Digitaladam wrote:
My brand new Canon 5D mark II has a problem.
From time to time when I press the live view mode button the display reads:
Err 20
Shooting is not possible
Turn the power switch
to OFF and ON again
or re-install the battery
Also this happening sometimes when I press AF-ON button while in live view mode.
This happening as well in view finder mode shooting when I press the shooter button.
After this happened I have to remove the battery to reset the camera.
I've tried different lenses and different compact flash cards, but the problem persisted.
Is anybody there with the same problem ?
I am shipping it back to Ritz for exchange ...Show more →
I was thinking of picking up the 5d mark2 for my canon 70-200 is that has been collecting dust since the nikon switch. But the 5d mark2 has a focus issue. Can someone please help me and explaine this to me without reading miles of post. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Daniel
But the 5d mark2 has a focus issue. Can someone please help me and explaine this to me without reading miles of post. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Daniel
The 5D2 has the same phase-detection focusing system as the 5D1, although some people report better alacrity (for reasons not yet known to the public, but it's not DIGIC IV).
The 5D2 has a contrast-detection focusing system in Live View that the 5D1 did not have (the 5D1 did not have Live View). The contrast-detection focusing system does use DIGIC IV.
