Cleaning a mirrorless sensor

[Skyline]

Sony A6000. What swabs do you recommend?
Do they do them were you take them out the packet and clean or do you need add the solution to them?

 

[Skyline]

 

[Cagey75]

Usually you get a little bottle of soloution along with the packs of swabs, you only need add a couple of drops at most and you only use each swab one time [front and back]

[edit] APSC sensor swabs and fluid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Camera-Sen...=1525812605&sr=1-1&keywords=APSC+sensor+clean

 

[dave.hallett]

Do get the APS-C size swabs though! I bought a bottle of Eclipse cleaning fluid and some swabs separately on Amazon.

 

[Cagey75]

Whoops, yeah APS-C is what you want, I just read Sony and thought FF

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Camera-Sen...=1525812605&sr=1-1&keywords=APSC+sensor+clean

A bit cheaper too

 

[tijuana taxi]

Couple of drops of fluid on the swab, let it soak in and then wipe across one way once applying the sort of pressure you would use with a pen

 

[Raymond Lin]

1 drop should be enough.

 

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

Is the process about the same as a mirrored camera or is mirrorless a little easier?

 

[stevelmx5]

Is the process about the same as a mirrored camera or is mirrorless a little easier?

The sensor side is exactly the same. The only difference is that you don’t need to enable mirror lock up on a Mirrorless body.

 

[Cagey75]

Is the process about the same as a mirrored camera or is mirrorless a little easier?

Easier, as steve says above, but, when cleaning sensors on bodies that have IBIS you have to be cautious, as the sensor is 'floating' - it will move about as you clean

 

[domart]

use as little fluid as possible, if you can remove the dust just using the stick, great, if you need to wet clean, as little fluid as possible, otherwise you can end up with a very slight haze on the sensor where it didn't quite evaporate, I cleaned my sensor and then shot a gig and had really bad flare, cleaned my lens, didn't go away, ran a dry swab over the sensor and it went away

 

[Raymond Lin]

use as little fluid as possible, if you can remove the dust just using the stick, great, if you need to wet clean, as little fluid as possible, otherwise you can end up with a very slight haze on the sensor where it didn't quite evaporate, I cleaned my sensor and then shot a gig and had really bad flare, cleaned my lens, didn't go away, ran a dry swab over the sensor and it went away

As I said above, 1 drop and you don't need to drop it at the tip, just drop it just under it and let the fluid to travel up, using nothing more than capillary motion. Wave it around then for about 10 seconds then swipe.