Where to get sensor cleaned?

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After my hols to Tenerife my sensor is shocking, lots of dust that my rocket blower wont shift. I live near Chorley and was wondering if anyone can recommend where to get a sensor clean. Oh and how much it may cost, ta.
 
If you have a London Camera Exchange close, they provide the service, think its about £30. Although take some advice from others who have used similar services in the area, I've heard horror stories of camera's coming back worse than they went in.

Personally, I clean the sensor on my 2 bodies myself, use visibledust swobs, solution and sensor bushes, simple and easy to do once you get over that initial (deep breathe) and have no real problems with dust.

Peter
 
I paid £15 in local camera shop. And they did it while I watched, showed me what to look for, etc and told me what I'd need to do it myself.

So... if I am feeling brave I might do my own next time
 
I do it myself, eclipse fluid & pecpads. If you're confident it's much cheaper.

You could pay £30, walk out the door & get dust on the sensor after your first lens change & have to spend another £30.
Or you could spend £30 and be able to clean your sensor for the rest of the year.

Personal choice I guess.
 
if youre coming to the Focus Show, there is usually someone there offering this service, just a thought :thumbs:
 
I won a visibledust arctic butterfly which I use. I think they cost £50 but I dont exactly know. I'm not exactly sure how good they are compared to a professional solution, but it seems to do the job.
 
I took a camera to Jessies for sensor cleaning a couple years ago. It took five weeks, cost a fortune and came back far worse than when it went in.

I've cleaned the sensor myself ever since.
 
Theres a very detailed article here:

http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/index.html

Dont see why you shouldnt do it yourself - its the filter above the sensor you re cleaning, should be fine if you follow the instructions.

(OK not done mine yet but will do it when required)
 
The thread by RobertP is excellent but I'm still nervous about cleaning my own sensor. I'm sure its easy, but would rather someone show me first :)
 
I also use an arctic butterfly and sensor loupe..wouldn't be without it and has worked well on mine.
 
Well worth learning how to do it yourself, those £30's add up...
 
From what I saw in the store when I was shown how to do mine, a lot can be achieved with just a rocketblower. I only ended up having one small spot that needed wet removal. My aim now is to do the rocketblower the minute I spot a dust bun.
 
If you can get to Calumet in Manchester, they have a sensor cleanung clinic every Friday. It's about £30 I think, but check first.

However a couple of cleans and you've paid for the kit, Wet or dry
 
Cany understand why these kits are so stupidly expensive? bit of cleaner fluid some tissues and a glue spreader, £30 or more......these guys are having a right laugh at us.....

OK looks like IPA is a suitable cleaner used in some of these kits - £8.37 a litre, I think thats slightly cheaper than the visble dust cleaner at £24 for 15ml.......Nice little earner that the 1 litre broken down sells for a staggering £1,600!!!!

Think I'm going to practise on every lcd screen I can find, cameras, DS Lite, calculators etc, once I've got those prefectly clean I'll do my own....
 
I had one of my cameras done at Calumet sometime back, the next day i had a large partical on the sensor.

Its so simple to do it yourself
 
Dark Star said:
I use RobertP himself for the price of a beer or two :) (he's two doors down :))
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I'll have to think about a price increase :)

DIY is pretty straightforward. Work in a clean place with no chance of grit or other abrasive dust getting on the tools and everything will be fine.
 
Mine needed doing a little while back but I was a bit wary of making a complete hash of it!! LeeP did mine for me while I watched, so next time I know how to do it myself.
I must admit it was a lot easier than I had expected after reading about it, so if you do get someone else to do it for you make sure you watch them!!
 
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