Sensor Cleaning (D800)

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I'm need to have the sensor cleaned on my D800 but I've been looking at the costs of paying to have it done locally and its not cheap (£40-£50 at Calumet).
I was looking at some of the options for buying kits and doing it myself as its obviously something I'm going to have to do again in the future - would rather fork out a bit more than pay again and again to have it done.

Just wondering if anyone has any recommendation or advice on what to buy?
 
As said previously, a Rocket Blower is all you should need. It keeps the sensor on my D800e perfectly clean, but make sure that it is the real thing and not some cheap knock-off from goodness knows where.
 
Hi John and welcome to the forum. I am not that keen on the use of a rocket blower as I have had instances of the force of the air stirring up dust from within other parts of the camera body. Yes a lot do use them but i do urge caution.
 
Hi Realspeed,

it's like everything in life...... if you don't know what you're doing, don't. There are some very good videos on YouTube which show very clearly the do's and don'ts of sensor cleaning, like the gentleman from Florida who advocates wetting one's snot-rag on one's tongue, then using it to clean the sensor. That was on his own D800 too; oops!

The main thing, as I'm sure you know, is to find out what you are doing first.
 
John definately
Before I attempted doing my first cleaning the research took hours and obvious doubts were there all the time. I was at the Focus on Imaging show at the NEC Birmingham which I went to most years and bought a complete kit from Visible dust people. I had exactly the same concerns as anyone else about sensor cleaning and the first time was daunting to say the least. Am I doing it right-am I pressing on the sensor too hard- have I used enough/not enough cleaning fluid and so forth and so on. This is why I was careful to mention right at the beginning of the link about it.

I suppose my big objection was letting an unknown person play with my expensive camera (d300 at the time) with no guarantee of it being done properly apart from being with the camera for an unknown length of time or being caught out like so many when Jessops closed suddenly with cameras waiting to go to a cleaning company and the camera owners risking loosing their gear.

AS i did mention, the "Loupe" is such an important part of sensor cleaning anyone who wants to try doing their own should really invest in one it will last a lifetime.

Now I have no fears about sensor cleaning and even on my D300 when the rubber camera grip worked loose I obtained a replacement ,again did research to find out how, and did it myself. The D300 part the hand hold absorbed sweat from the hand and the material softened and the glue compound holding it rotted to use a better term. I did some time ago post about this as well and what and how to replace.
 
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