sensor cleaning?

[306dean]

What do you guys and gals use?

I've bought a D2h at a bargain price with some dust on the sensor. The main purchase was to trial before shelling out on a D2x. For the price I paid the dust isn't an issue, but obviously if I can get rid of it I would prefer to.

 

[woof woof]

I use a Rocket first, if a wet clean is needed I use Pec pads and Eclipse fluid.

I wrap a Pec pad around a slice cut from an old credit card and add a drop of fluid. That seems to work for me and as the card flexes in use you can't apply any real pressure and there's therefore pretty much zero chance of damaging anything. I've cleaned my various cameras sensors many many times without issue

 

[modchild]

I use a LensPen SensorKlear kit with a bulb blower to blow the worst off first and then a run over with the pen. It's very good at the job and easy to use, my kit came with a loupe to check where the worst of the dust is and to make sure it's clean after. It cost around £30 for the kit but I've used it to clean 6 or 7 cameras already and it usually costs between £30-50 at a shop anyway.

There's also an Arctic Butterfly system that uses low volt static to attract the dust to the brush. I've not used it but it seems to work pretty well. Or as Alan said, a Pec Pad and fluid if it's really stuck on. All the above seem to work pretty well though and I'm sure there's a few more ways as well.

 

[rob-nikon]

I've recently been reading up about sensor cleaning as my d7000 needs a good clean. I had looked about on the Internet at what I would roughly need. I when to my nearest camera shop with a list of what I thought I would need they basically they blow it out of the water. They recommended me kit they personally used and it was a 1/3 of the cost I thought I would have to pay. I was recommended a blower (I already had one of cleaning lens glass), a lenspen sensorklear loupe, lenspen sensorklear II and a pack of 4 visibledust vswabs with vdust plus (for water & oil marks) if I do need to wet clean. All of this came to about £60.

I was going to buy an arctic butterfly but they recommended the sensorklear II pen instead. Ive read good and bad reviews about the arctic butterfly. The sensorklear pen was only £10 compared to £80-100 for the arctic butterfly so I'm going to see how I get on with this first.

The sensor loupe does seem to be a good buy, being able to see the marks on the sensor whilst cleaning will make it easier, rather than taking test shots to see if its clean after each stage.

 

[tony the viking]

I have a d2x and i use rocket blower first then wet swab with eclipse fluid using gentle pressure, works great for me.