Dust Free photography presents the wt method of Digital SLR Sensor Cleaning sponsored by Micro- Tools.com
Welcome to wet cleaning the Digital SLR Sensor a dust free photography serious video.
I'm Curt Fargo; I will be your hosting guide as we take a look at the wet cleaning or a Digital SLR Sensor. In this video, we’re going to learn when, where, and how to actually clean the sensor plus a lot more.
But the time this video is over, you should be confident enough to complete the wet cleaning on your own. But before we get started, there are three points I did need to make.
First, to be technically correct, you are never actually cleaning the sensor. What you are cleaning is a little pet stiller as attached of another sensor. But to keep it simple, we’re just going to refer to this as their sensor.
Second, ans you can tell I'm not a Hollywood actor but I'm a certified photographic consultant along with the background as a camera pyromen and 30-years experience in the camera pair industry. I will be able to show you first hand how to clean your sensor.
Third, if you don’t have a slitty hand or not confident in your own ability is you have to view in this video beside clean your camera. Remember not everyone can ride a bicycle. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, so just when you should clean your camera, and how often.
Let’s all see the analogy if it is in pro, don’t fix it. In other words, if you're not seeing the spots on your images, or you haven’t found contaminates on your sensor, don’t clean it. Some people end up cleaning these sensors daily. Some would come up cleaning it manually. In all the pens in the environment, you should lean in and puff and then change in your lenses. And if you use a push posing lens and patch more.
If you play and taking some important pictures, I would highly encourage you to do a sensor inspection prior to the shoe. I would never recommend cleaning your sensor by any method, if you don’t have the capability of performing the sensor inspection afterwards.
Once lighting room are location to clean your Sensor in, the cleaner the environment, the better. You don’t need a commercial clean room but on the other hand, you don’t want to tend this in a dusty and vary neither.
This is where common sense comes in the play. In most cases, this isn't a 2 minute task but more like a 15-30 minute one. So you will watch this on a location where you won’t be disturbed during this sum out of time. You will get faster with the experience. If you are forced in it or a hand forced enough to have you on kids running around, try to make sure they won’t disturb enough dust in the room. This goes for pets too.
In many cases, the bathroom is one of the most dust free environments in a house and most of the built in seat. Choose a work space far away from heating and air con is in advance. Better yet if you turn them off if you can. You could also clean your sensor on all accession but I would not recommend doing it outdoors. I would only do on a location if I wasn’t being rushed, I have to clean in ferment, and have the capability of inspecting that afterwards.
Now, let’s take a look at the tools that we’ll be using in this video they are the rocket blower, eclipse, sensor swabs, and a sensor inspection device. We will be using the Giottos Brand Rocket Blower which has been tested to be one of the best on the market photos task. No matter what method is sensor cleaning you use, the blower should always be used first. We do not recommend the use of can gear on the sensor, ans no can gear is contaminant free. The repellants within can gear can make a real mess of your sensor. The sensor swab is a tool or actually touching the sensor. The sensor swabs do come in three different sizes depending on the size of the sensor in your camera. These sizes are: type two which are for all 1.6 and 1.5 ex sensors. This happens to be in composing of the gear of the cameras out there. Type three swabs are for cameras with four frame sensors. And type 1 swabs, these are for the cameras with 1.3 ex sensors.
Eclipse is a cleaning session that we will be applying to the census swabs to do the actual cleaning. It is pure methanol that has been highly refined and filtered. Eclipse has a brother called Eclipse E2 which is used on cameras you sense are cannot that coded.
To find out what camera call on size of swab is right for your specific camera. Visit photographic solutions’ site at www.photosall.com. Photographic solutions office will guarantee that you will not debit your sensor if you use their products and follow their instructions. As a site note, this video follows their instructions.
For inspecting the sensor, you will be using a five times sensors go by desiccant. This is the first commercially available sensor inspection device designed for the consumer use.
Yes, you can shoot test images to inspect your sensor, but using a sensor device will messily cut down the overall time needed to clean your sensor, and it also allows you to clean your sensor while on the occasion.
Okay, let’s get started. Assuming that we’ve already seen the spots on the images, or we’ve inspected the sensor and found contaminants on it, we are ready to start the cleaning process.
The first step is the pretty camera into its cleaning mode. We will place the camera faced down on our work surface, and there’ll be many system.
In commy cameras, you will find this option list to the sense you're cleaning. Night can call us mere or lock up. Please refer to your owners menu for specific instruction for your making model. In some over cameras you require to use an AC power supply just to view of the access you're cleaning mode.
There are two reasons to not attempt to clean your sensor using bulb or long shutter speed. These are when you're using bulb or along shutter speed, the sensor is powered up which in turn produces an aesthetic charge on the surface. It just makes it very hard to clean.
Second, being that efficient closes on your sensor cleaning device, you hold it up with the blowing shutter and a very expensive repair bill.
Now we’re ready to actually start the cleaning. To assemble for, the first step is we’ll be using the blower. Let’s hold the camera placing down not putting the blower into the camera. Let me start blowing. Now I would use the sweeping motion to help the air reach all air using the sensor. I would use this small tool two times.
The main purpose of using the blower is to remove the big chucks which keep them from being dragged across the sensor by the sensor swab. Yes the blower on its own is a great day in tool but air alone will not remove the dust that has been held on by moisture or pollen. No wrath in the moo stray lubricant that found their way on to the sensor.
I'm now ready to check the results of my blowing on the sensor. Using my census compiled with, we will see the surface of the sensor and how successful the blower was on its own. If I got lucky, my sensor would be clean but in most cases I'm not that lucky.
Well’ it shows you a lot better but not perfect yet so now, we need to do a wet cleaning.
Keep on my camera facing down while I prepare some census swab with eclipse. I will cut the bag containing this swab open with the pair of scissors. Make sure that we don’t touch the swab with here fingers, this is to be touched in the sensor, and since this is the first swab of the cleaning I will use three drops right on the tip. No need to put this chemical on both sides as a little flow to the other side on its own. If I am not needing additional swabs to complete this task, I would only use two drops on each of the additional swab.
Without the lay, I'm going to swab the camera. I will start on one side, and go across and come back to this other direction without lifting the swab from the surface of the sensor like this.
I quite often get to ask is to what is the correct amount of pressure to use? I have this graphic representation to share with you that I hope will answer the question for you. I'm going to use a rocket blower to blow of the sensor before I check my swan in the results.
I use the same technique as I did in the first time. I'm now ready to inspect the sensor. Using my sensor scope, I'm going to lift for contaminants, smears, granary, and other foreign objects.
Well’ I got lucky this time and only had to use one swab. In most cases you will need to repeat your swabbing step multiple times using brand new swab each time. You don’t want to reuse the swab, is that we’ll be dragging the contaminants that you’ve already picked up back across the scissors and that is in the good idea. The more experience you get, the faster you’ll get. I'm taking my camera out of the cleaning mode, and now, I'm ready to go shoot. Yes it’s really that easy. Remember that the best photography is always dust free photography.
Thank you for watching and have a wonderful day.
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