Paid for my sensor to be cleaned professionally terrible result

Pookeyhead said:
People.... just clean your own sensors... nothing terrible will happen. Buy a rocket blower, and an Eclipse sensor cleaning kit.
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Better off with an arctic butterfly and drowning your sensor in isopropanol
 
hollis_f said:
Maybe on your planet. Here on Earth it gets done by some spotty-faced youth experience worker.
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Pete did say "the good ones".

I'm another who tends to use the bathroom as it's the one room in the house where the air is regularly washed down by showers. Of course, I wait until the humidity has dropped to a level I deem safe for the inside of cameras and (touch wood) never had a problem yet. Of my 3 SLRs so far, the D200 was by far the worst for dust bunnies and even more so for oily splots. One of them (oily splots) smeared so badly during a wet clean that I thought I had scratched the low pass filter but a revisit with a SensorKlear pen shifted the smear and left the LPF bright and sparkly. The D70 suffers from dust a bit but no oil and the D700 has yet to need even a rocket blow - the sensor shaker has shifted the single bunny it had.
 
Dexy101 said:
Sadly I had a bad experience with a sensor coming back a lot worse than I sent it. This was a Canon approved Glasgow company this time though.
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Same company did my sensor years ago when the brush wouldn't more a spot. They removed the stubborn bunny but plenty more appeared lol

I'd not recommend them for any thing
 
When mine needs cleaning I'll just do it myself. But then I do have the benefit of being able to get hold of pure methanol and some of the softest lens cloths known to man. The RAF uses them to clean £200,000 grown crystal windows used on RAPTOR pods. So I reckon they'll do my DSLR ok.
 
Spooky said:
I took my D700 to Digital Depot in Stevenage. They did a great job, got rid of the colony of bunnies that had taken up residency, and on a 'while you wait' service.

Spooks
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I should hope it was while you wait.. all they did was blow it out with a rocket blower, and wipe your sensor with a cleaning pad. It takes 1 minute.
 
Steelmagnet said:
I just clone out the dirt.
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Surely that gets annoying though? Get some tutorials watched and get it cleaned! ;)
 
I had just the same result years ago and ever since I've done it myself and I've never had a problem. I just use Rocket and if that doesn't do it I use a Pec pad wrapped around a slice cut from an old credit card and add a drop of Eclipse fluid.

Just to contrast my old 5D with my slightly less old Panasonic G1. My 5D often needs cleaning but my G1 has never required even a single wet clean. I must have changed lenses 8-10 times today and yet my sensor is clean at f16 which is the minimum the lens now fitted will go to.
 
With a post a minute from 06:16 (IIRC) for 5 minutes, all consisting of the same link, I would agree. RTM button about to be pressed, although I reckon the team are probably aware (if awake!) and dealing with the problem already.
 
In my own experience the Arctic butterflies will remove light dust that a blow hasn't shifted, but I still find myself having to do a wet clean usually if I want my sensor spotless.

As others have pointed out, it's really not that scary [at least after the first attempt!].
 
I've seen examples where a brush has made a problem worse rather than curing it. They're great for shifting dust but will simply spread any oil droplets over the sensor rather than removing them. Even a wet clean failed to dispose of some oil droplets on my old D200's sensor (low pass filter) and it took a SensorKlear (from LensPen) to shift those smears.
 
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