Thanks, @ingweDave, I will check that out!
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I've been using mine successfully for 10 years. I can understand people being nervous using the same item over again but provided you don't ever touch the filaments it works well. It uses static electricity by spinning the filaments and again after use spinning removes any particles. I would not use it if I thought anything on the sensor was not a loose particle. I have probably used it over 200 times, on a dozen cameras and will continue to do so. (BTW I have never changed the battery and it is quite a powerful spin!)Thanks, @ingweDave, I will check that out!
The filaments touch the sensor and I apply a gentle pressure. This allows the filaments to spread to the width of the sensor, which I really like. I make a single pass and then spin the filaments again. Occasionally I repeat this in the opposite direction. (I have always given the sensor a blow first.) I have never touched the filaments with my fingers but they can be cleaned.So do the filaments not actually touch the sensor? Or do you mean touching them with your hands, which makes sense.
^ This. ^Eclipse Fluid by Photographic Solutions + Visible Dust swabs never failed me.
I prefer to avoid dust. I carry 2 bodies and always change lenses facing downward...While editing some of my photos recently, I'm beginning to see the same dust spot showing up in the same area in the frame. It's not horribly bad in this shot, but this is wide open (f5.6), other shots stopped down it gets more noticeable. I've got my camera (D500) set up to sensor clean at startup and shutdown, but apparently that's not enough. Somewhere down in my basement I have a sensor cleaning kit, but it's from when I had my D200 so I'm guessing the chemicals probably aren't the best anymore.
That said, what do all of you use to clean your sensors? I'm not afraid to do the cleaning myself, did it more than once on my D200 (oddly, never had an issue with my D300??). And I know I could Google "the best sensor cleaners of 2022", guess I trust my friends on this site more than I do Google!
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Rich I'm in the Chgo So Burbs there is a place called international Camera I have used them for sensor cleaning and had cameras repaired there. They do everything in house all brands of cameras and offer 5% discount if paid in cash and have fast turn around times. Located at 17 N Wabash Ave room 674 312-630-1017I have cleaned sensors myself but prefer to have the pros do it. Until 5 years ago when I switched from Canon to NIkon I was CPS and lived very close the Chicago-area Canon service center. No brainer. Drive 45 minutes to a checkup. Too bad there is not a Nikon service center in the Chicago area.