Thomas Hawk starts off a day of shooting in Half Moon Bay by cleaning his sensor on his Canon 5D. Over the next few days you’ll see the rest of Photowalking with Thomas Hawk and discover how he made 60 great images in just a little more than an hour.
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79 Responses to “Photowalking #2, Part I: cleaning the sensor”
[…] …and the bane of anyone else who uses a DSLR. Every time the lens is changed little specks of dust get sucked onto my sensor and show up in my photos as dark spots that I have to Photoshop out. The Nikon manual practically shouts to send it in to the manufacturer, but you don’t have to, and this video that Scoble shot with Thomas Hawk is a really helpful video. Out of the 4:27 video, about 1:30 deals with the actual process, which proves that it’s much easier than the manufacturers want you to think. (Note: On the Nikon, the menu setting to clean the sensor is “Mirror lock-up”, not “sensor cleaning mode” like the Canon) […]
I so far have not tried cleaning the sensor myself on my Nikon but I have found that “professional” cleaning costs far less than the $90 mentioned by Thomas and is far less painful than sending it back to the manufacturer. In Toronto Vistek does it for $35 (Canadian) often turning it around in an hour (but at most a day).
I admint that this is not very helpful if you are out in a Pumpkin patch parking lot though or if you aren’t close to a major retailer with a service department.
Just starting to watching the second series of the photowalking - great that these are back
A quic note - is it on purpose that you don’t do any post-processing ? I mean when you were fixing the mic the camera was still running and this made it to the final cut - would it not have been better to cut this, or even start again?
you can easily clean it with an air compressor. I payd $80 for the compressor and I clean with that all my electronic devices, including the 40D sensor, lenses, etc.
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:03 am
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November 3rd, 2006 at 2:26 pm
This is one of the most helpful videos yet. I clean my own sensor too — dust is one of the biggest aggravations of DSLRs.
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[…] …and the bane of anyone else who uses a DSLR. Every time the lens is changed little specks of dust get sucked onto my sensor and show up in my photos as dark spots that I have to Photoshop out. The Nikon manual practically shouts to send it in to the manufacturer, but you don’t have to, and this video that Scoble shot with Thomas Hawk is a really helpful video. Out of the 4:27 video, about 1:30 deals with the actual process, which proves that it’s much easier than the manufacturers want you to think. (Note: On the Nikon, the menu setting to clean the sensor is “Mirror lock-up”, not “sensor cleaning mode” like the Canon) […]
November 4th, 2006 at 7:43 am
I so far have not tried cleaning the sensor myself on my Nikon but I have found that “professional” cleaning costs far less than the $90 mentioned by Thomas and is far less painful than sending it back to the manufacturer. In Toronto Vistek does it for $35 (Canadian) often turning it around in an hour (but at most a day).
I admint that this is not very helpful if you are out in a Pumpkin patch parking lot though or if you aren’t close to a major retailer with a service department.
November 4th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Never clean your sensor outdoors like that if you can avoid it.
Also, it would be helpful to know where you get the sensor swabs.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Hank: he bought them at B&H Photo.
November 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Is it the “Visible Dust” product he uses or something else?
November 4th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I’ll try to get him to answer here.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I buy them here: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=238168&is=REG
November 4th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
OK — thanks.
And you use the recommended solution - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=details_accessories&A=details&Q=&sku=127525&is=REG&addedTroughValue=242758_REG&addedTroughType=accessory_detail
or something else that you can buy locally? (I assume this is the stuff you refer to that can’t be shipped?)
November 6th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Just starting to watching the second series of the photowalking - great that these are back
A quic note - is it on purpose that you don’t do any post-processing ? I mean when you were fixing the mic the camera was still running and this made it to the final cut - would it not have been better to cut this, or even start again?
cheers,
Nige
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you can easily clean it with an air compressor. I payd $80 for the compressor and I clean with that all my electronic devices, including the 40D sensor, lenses, etc.