📷 Canon Sensor Cleaning for DLSR and Mirrorless
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- How do you clean your camera sensor at home? It's quite easy with a simple camera sensor cleaning kit and a little patience. This video shows a Canon 6D being cleaned, but it's the same process for sensor cleaning of Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Fuji, Panasonic and more. You just need to get the right sensor cleaning kit for your Micro Four Thirds, APS-C, Full Frame, or Medium format camera sensor. Do make sure you use the manual sensor cleaning function in your camer's menu to not only expose the sensor, but to disable any In Body Image Stabilisation (IBIS) so the sensor doesn't flop around.
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00:00 Intro and VSGO sensor cleaning kit
00:40 Full frame and APS-C cleaning swabs
01:20 Expose the camera’s sensor for cleaning
01:50 Use a dust blower - not compressed air
02:14 Get the cleaning swab ready
03:21 Using the cleaning swab on the sensor
04:18 Cleaning wrap-up
04:52 VSGO sensor cleaning kit link
05:15 What do sensor spots look like?
05:48 How to check for sensor spots
07:46 How does a sensor get dirty
08:33 Outro
08:48 Outtakes
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Hot tip not explained in the video if you have In Body Image Stabilisation (IBIS). It's especially important to use the camera's manual sensor clean function through the menu as if you have IBIS this should lock the sensor in place instead of potentially leaving it free to wobble around.
Very helpful - thank you! ✨
You're so welcome!
If I'd have known how much of a problem sensor dust would be to a DSLR camera when I first bought one I wouldn't have got one in the first place
It's not usually a BIG problem if you're mindful of the conditions that you swap your lens in. This example was so bad because I deliberatly left the sensor exposed for a couple of hours which is not something you would normally ever do. I've rarely had to clean my sensors and the example camera was one I've had for 10 years.
Having pondered the matter, swabbing twice, in the SAME direction (of course using the opposite side of the pad on the second run) may be superior to swishing one way, and then going the reverse direction. Why? Particles that stop short of exiting the surface in one direction have a better chance of getting bulldozed off the surface. Have I done the science? Hey, I'm a theoretician!
Hey, now someone will liken the process to a car stuck in snow, rocking forward and then backward. Hee hee hee ha ha. Hey, there's more! What happens when you stroke your cat's fur one way, then stroke in reverse? Damn, this is some of my best work.
Lol it's brilliant work. And yes my scientific evidence is my gut suggests to me that's what it is. Still better than nothing!
What about the mirror? What if there is a smudge or hair on the mirror? I can see it through my lense but it doesn't affect my photos. It just bothers me
If there’s a hair, hit it with a rocket blower like you see in the video. A lens brush with a *very gentle* touch may also help dislodge particulates. I’d be hesitant to wipe at it though. I’ve read of people using a swab on their mirror and it has smudged little focus squares if they are present. Also too much pressure on the mirror may affect microfocus as well
How to clean iPhone sensor... nope ;)
Lmao could you imagine the teeny tiny swab?!