Craig VanDerSchaegen » accessories http://blog.craigvanders.com Minneapolis photojournalist and headshot photographer Thu, 13 May 2010 16:54:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Sensor cleaned! http://blog.craigvanders.com/2007/09/20/sensor-cleaned/ http://blog.craigvanders.com/2007/09/20/sensor-cleaned/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:19:47 +0000 Craig http://blog.craigvanders.com/2007/09/20/sensor-cleaned/ Well, I think I’m out of the woods with what I thought was a ruined camera, though I’m about $3,000 in the hole after replacing my 5D and buying all of the cleaning supplies. I needed to have the 5D right away and knew I wouldn’t get the cleaning stuff for several days, so I had a camera over-nighted with the hope that I could sell it once I got mine cleaned. I checked into rental prices and there was no way I was going to pay $150/day for the 5D.

On Tuesday I got the Smear Away, Sensor Clean, and pack of swabs from Visible Dust. I carefully cleaned the sensor and…(drumroll, please)…my Canon 5D is like new!

Here are the results:

Clean 5D sensor

There are a couple of dust specs near the upper right of the frame, but that’s to be expected and should blow off easily, but I’m going to leave it as is for now.

So now I have a 5D to sell and will try to get it up on eBay tonight. I’m hoping to get close to $2000 for it.

Whew!

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Here’s what my sensor looked like before the “cleaning”. Some dust is visible, but this is at f/22 and it doesn’t show up on most of my shots. I tend to stick around f/8 or so.
Before

After a couple of passes with the brush, I was horrified.
Oh no!

F#%K!

Following the instructions on the support page, I ordered some Smear Away, Sensor Clean, and some Ultra MXD-100 swabs. They should arrive on Friday. I’m REALLY hoping that this works and isn’t a $2600 lesson to never do this again.

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