Sensor Cleaning
Sensor Cleaning
Ive started to get a couple dust spots on my camera sensor, and was looking to take it in for cleaning. First place I went to wants 75 bucks, which is more than I want to spend for a problem that is likely to come back again. Is there anywhere in the Detroit area that might be less.
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Learn how to do it yourself, much cheaper and it's not that hard.
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There is a place in wyandotte I'll see if I can find the address bingo http://www.midwestcamera.com/ or you could do it yourself just takes a steady had a puffer. See what your instructions say my Minolta was pretty easy to do but I will say there was some crud on it that I could not get off so I got it cleaned.
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Corner of Oak and 3rd i tink.Crow T Robot wrote:There is a place in wyandotte I'll see if I can find the address bingo http://www.midwestcamera.com/ or you could do it yourself just takes a steady had a puffer. See what your instructions say my Minolta was pretty easy to do but I will say there was some crud on it that I could not get off so I got it cleaned.
Re: Sensor Cleaning
Take a little blow-brush thing (I have no idea what they're really called) and blow it once or twice. Works every time for me.
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Wyandotte is 30 miles away from me, so thats really not a good option. Right now ive been able to work around the problem by cloning out the spots. I'll likely go online and figure out how to do it myself.
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Amazingly in 5 years with my Olympus E-500 I have never had this issue. I swear by their dust reduction system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Wave_Filter
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Agreed. Watch an instructional video on youtube and then order a cleaning kit online. It'll save you tons of money from what a local camera store will charge. And if you learn to do it yourself, you can do it any time it's needed without the hassle of going to a camera shop.conrailmike wrote:Learn how to do it yourself, much cheaper and it's not that hard.
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Got a link to a good one? There used to be a camera store in Toledo that'd do it for $15 and I'd gone there a time or two but they closed. I bought a kit but it hasn't come up where I've needed to yet although I'm sure it will one day...J T wrote: Agreed. Watch an instructional video on youtube and then order a cleaning kit online.
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Link to a good instructional video or a good cleaning kit?MDH wrote:Got a link to a good one?J T wrote: Agreed. Watch an instructional video on youtube and then order a cleaning kit online.
This is the brand I use: http://www.photosol.com/store/pc/home.asp
And here is a good video:
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Thanks for the video link - just watched it and will keep it in mind for when I need to next time.
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