Sensor Cleaning - Aylesbury

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Hi,

Anyone know of a good place to get a Canon sensor cleaned near Aylesbury? :help:

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Alistair
 
Its worth learning to do it yourself.

Sensor cleaning is money for old rope, and sure as eggs is eggs, you'll get dust on the sensor in no time. A one off payment will buy the gear you need, for less than the cost of 1 clean.

Sorry I don't know the answer (I'm in Cambridge), but IMHO a clean is nothing to be afraid off.
 
puddleduck said:
Its worth learning to do it yourself.

Sensor cleaning is money for old rope, and sure as eggs is eggs, you'll get dust on the sensor in no time. A one off payment will buy the gear you need, for less than the cost of 1 clean.

Sorry I don't know the answer (I'm in Cambridge), but IMHO a clean is nothing to be afraid off.
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OK, what do you recommend, I'll have an FF and an APS-H sensor soon...
 
I have been cleaning sensors for years now, the best method I have found is get the delkin SCOPE throw the swabs and fluid in the bin.

Get some Kim wipes and a pair of hard rubber tipped tweezers, in some cases you may need a few drops of pure alcohol.

in many cases the dust can be simply blown away using a very good blower, do not use canned air or anything similar use a squeezy blower.

for the more baked on bits you may need to use a kim wipe.

I have heard so many horror stories about people using the swabs, my good friend actually scratched the filter on his 1Ds3 cost £1k to have it replaced (they only sell the unit as a whole)

it is easy enough. if you can get to Herts I would be happy to show you how to do it, I will do your FF camera and then you can have a go yourself on the crop body.

Let me know what you think.
 
Marac said:
I have been cleaning sensors for years now, the best method I have found is get the delkin SCOPE throw the swabs and fluid in the bin.

Get some Kim wipes and a pair of hard rubber tipped tweezers, in some cases you may need a few drops of pure alcohol.

in many cases the dust can be simply blown away using a very good blower, do not use canned air or anything similar use a squeezy blower.

for the more baked on bits you may need to use a kim wipe.

I have heard so many horror stories about people using the swabs, my good friend actually scratched the filter on his 1Ds3 cost £1k to have it replaced (they only sell the unit as a whole)

it is easy enough. if you can get to Herts I would be happy to show you how to do it, I will do your FF camera and then you can have a go yourself on the crop body.

Let me know what you think.
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Thanks, I've always been worried about the swab approach. I'll look at getting a delkin SCOPE, tweezers and some Kim wipes. I've an old EOS D30 that I might have a go at first and if I struggle, I'll get back to you...

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the tweezers need to be silicone tipped or hard rubber, dont go into your D30 with a pair of metal eyebrow tweezers, electronic outlets like maplins will have the right ones, you can get the alcohol from them too (make sure its pure, not brandy :D ) the kimwipes you can get online Kimtech Kimwipes they come in a green box.

good luck.
 
If your still not confident with doing it yourself, a friend of mine who lives in Penn had his cleaned at Chesham Cameras, which isn't too far from you.

Edit: I remember a shop I went into a while back in Thame... Thame Photographic? Not sure if they do sensor cleaning or not.
 
I've found a rocket blower fixes most problems. One and a half years of D-SLR photography and I haven't had to touch the insides of my cameras at all when cleaning them. I suggest you try an inexpensive rocket blower before you try anything else.
 
justinitus said:
If your still not confident with doing it yourself, a friend of mine who lives in Penn had his cleaned at Chesham Cameras, which isn't too far from you.

Edit: I remember a shop I went into a while back in Thame... Thame Photographic? Not sure if they do sensor cleaning or not.
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Thanks, I'll keep these in mind...

Alistair
 
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