Photography Thailand Forum

[Gary Dublanko]

An interesting article on dust removal:

http://pixinfo.com/en/articles/ccd-dust-removal/

I'm curious to know how often and what method of dust/spot removal members of this forum use. I use the Visible Dust kit for both spot cleaning and dust removal about once every 8-10 weeks on average on my D2x depending on how much I've been shooting and changing lenses. I find that spots on the sensor (from humidity changes?) are far more common than dust and take a bit more effort to remove. What's your experience?

[Paul Whitehead]

I use the visible dust "wirly" brush and swabs - The brush gets used everytime I see a dust appear on a file (about once every 10 days of outings) and the swab i have only ever had to use once.

I seem to be suffering a lot from dust of late but put that down to the dry season.

[David Salmanowitz]

I use the Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly whenever there seems to be a need for it, which can vary. Like it very much, no problems.

[Athena]

I also use a Visible Dust kit.  Although I learned the hard way that you must be careful using it with a 5D as you can easily drag chamber grease onto your sensor if you aren't careful.   

[PeterP]

I too, use the Visible Dust system. I bought a kit of all sorts of swabs and cleaning solutions. Nowadays I find I only need the spinning brush - but at first I had to swab as well. I think a lot of this crap comes from the manufacturing and initial wear-in on the shutter. I gave mine a good swab with Chamber Clean around the chamber (and yes, then had to clean the CCD) but this seemed to do the trick.
I think the spinner (now Artic Butterfly) works very well - but flattens batteries!

[agitlits]

I use "copperhillimages" wet clean method with methanol and clean wipes. But I do a wet clean very rarely, normally an occasonal use of a rocket blower fixes things.

Alex

[Kees5]

I use Canon service shop on Sathon Rd, about 350 Baht.

I met a man there once who said one of the problems is that people don't switch off the power while they change lens, and a powered camera has the sensor loaded with static electricity, attracting dust. I have been doing that ever since

[baracoa]

As Kees5, I use Nikon customer services to clean my sensor. As my D200 is not yet one year old, it's free of charge