Hair and dust on sensor?

[nessiemac]

Help!

Never cleaned anything inside a camera before but noticed this hair as well as some dust spots on the photos.

It is def in the camera but where and how do i get it out!

Thanks.

[DibblyDobbler]

A few options:

1. 'Rocket blower' to blast out the debris - should work with loose stuff, eg the hair
2. Clean the sensor with swabs + fluid - I tried this once with not much success and also got it done in a shop - also not satisfactory
3. A bit left field - suck the dirt out with your vacuum cleaner - sounds mad but worked for me (if you suck the innards of you camera out, don't blame me!)

[Tony1963]

Google your camera model with sensor clean. Have a read, and watch some YouTube videos. Even a 'proper' clean is easy, but you might need to buy some bits and pieces. My advice would be to not pay for a shop to do it. They'll charge around £50, and sometimes don't do a good job.

[steveatesh]

Just a thought but have you tried the camera self clean option, found in one of the menu headings?

It’s worth a go before you spend money on it.

Don’t blow in it as you may introduce moisture onto the sensor.

There are plenty YouTube videos if you do have to manually clean it, although got to say I’m not looking forward to that day myself!

[Tony1963]

Another disappearing OP thread.....

[nessiemac]

Not disappearing just very busy!

Read up on the body (1dx) but tried everywhere to try and buy a cleaning kit for today but no success unfortunately.

I have a shoot tomorrow and Sunday so hopefully shooting at a wider aperture will minimise the appearance of the dirt until i can get it cleaned.

Thanks everyone though i will still be reluctant to use a kit when i get it!!

[JohnS]

I have a 1dx and regularly clean my own sensor.

Try turning the camera so it's pointing at the floor, and try the built in sensor clean function a few times in succession. I have found this more successful than if the camera is pointing horizontally which can move the dust around. Pointing it to the floor seems to encourage any dust to fall away from the sensor.

I use one of the eyelead sensor cleaning kit on mine, which is a sticky silicone blob at the end of a stick. Put your camera into manual sensor cleaning mode, then dab from one corner to the other, then work your way down. Every few dabs, dab a clean section of the sticky paper that comes with the kit to clean the silicone blob. After dabbing the sensors and refitting the lens, I do a few manual cleans using the built in sensor cleaning function with the lens pointing at the floor to clear any newly settled dust whilst the sensor was exposed and I was dabbing around.

I find I often have to go over the whole sensor at least twice before it's reasonably clean, working out from a few second exposure of a white roof at f22 where any remaining dust spots/hairs are, and if they are big/numerous to worry about.

[SCEtoAUX]

Shutter open, very soft brush, Hoover gently near the where the lens would normally attach.

My cameras get filthy and this always works just fine.