Everybody gets dust on their sensor it shows up as little spots in
Clear areas of your picture like you can take a picture of the sky, you might see a little blob that wasn't really there
I'm gonna show you how to clean your sensor. I've tried several different techniques
and
I've just recently started using a new technique that has worked better and has cleaned some spots that it couldn't clean with my previous techniques
I'm updating it with some new stuff first if you aren't sure whether your sensor has dust on it
Well it might not be a problem
But sometimes you want to test it proactively if you have a big shoot we always clean our sensors beforehand
Just to make sure we don't ruin a bunch of pictures. Here's an easy way to test for spots on your sensor
I find it easier to put my camera into live view and then I'll switch my lens to manual focus and I'll focus as close as
Possible to spin the lens until you get to the minimum focusing distance
Going to get so close to something that is just completely out of focus and as I look around the screen
I will see some spots as I move so there's spots on the screen that aren't moving
Those are dust spots on the sensor you could also just take a picture of a white wall
I'd like to just get to close enough that the wall would be out of focus and then any spots that you see are obvious
You can usually see the dust with your naked. Eye, though
Take your lens off if you have an SLR you'll have to put your camera into cleaning mode. That's buried in the menu somewhere
It's usually like the very last menu item put into cleaning mode and that will flip the mirror up if your camera has an auto
cleaning option
That's a good place to start
But if that doesn't fix it then choose clean manually to move the mirror out of the way to give you access to the sensor
Again on a mirrorless camera this is not necessary
There is no mirror to move out of the way make sure you turn the camera off
Now as I'm looking at that. I can actually see some dust
Flecks on my sensor so that's definitely what's causing the Flex that I'm seeing in the photos
Okay, so let's dig into our kit here. I'm using a kit from
VSGO oh it's a two-part kit it has
Swabs and then some cleaning fluid I know it's pretty scary to be putting fluid around your camera
I've done this before you don't have to do it if you're afraid if you're gonna hold me responsible for this
Send this camera back pay your manufacturer 50 or 100 bucks, and they'll clean your sensor for you
I always do this myself and in fact. I travel with this stuff because
Inevitably when I'm out traveling. I end up getting some dust on my sensor so this two-part kit
the swab and the cleaning I'm gonna tear this open to
pull my swab out and
Then I'm just going to put a couple of drops here on the tip of the swab to make sure that the whole edge is
completely covered ,the instructions tell you to do this whole process with a dry swab first, but I
That was not sufficient for me, and I don't see the point, so I'm not going to do it
But you're welcome to follow the instructions and play it safe the little cap comes out you want to make sure you save that so
You can seal it up later now. I just want to make sure this whole edge
here is completely moist and
Make sure you don't touch it because it's very important that it not get any extra dust on it
Or it could be scratched, and I'm just gonna put a couple of drops here
Should only take two drops, but you do want to make sure the whole edge is wet there you go
I can see that the whole edge is moist I
I will replace that cap so it doesn't all evaporate
Now what I'm going to do is to?
put this on the left side of the sensor line it up at the edge of the sensor here and
I'm going to gently
Drag it across the sensor
Then I'm going to holding it in the same orientation without flipping it
I'm going to do the exact same process from right to left you
Want to be extremely delicate with it you can apply a tiny amount of pressure
But especially if your camera has sensor stabilization as this one does
You'll be able to feel it moving around a little bit
And you definitely don't want to put too much force on the mechanics of that
this should be sufficient so that if you look at it in the light all the dust is gone I
Don't you need to go through they recommend using a dry swab a wet swab, and then a dry swab
That seems unnecessary to me
It seems like using the one swab does a great job and saves you a lot of money because you're using one-third of the swabs
Now that I have that sensor cleaned I can turn my camera off
If you have a DSLR that'll cause the mirror to flip back down and protect your sensor again like I said
This is the V SGO package
No sponsorship or anything you have to get the swab in the size that matches the narrow
Length of your sensor so I created some links depending on the type of camera that you have if you have a micro
Four-thirds camera you can go here to sdp.io/DDR 12
Aps-c DDR 16, or a full-frame camera go to sdp dot.io
/DDR24
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