On May 16, 2010, at 8:19 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> On 5/16/2010 7:49 PM, William Robb wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault"
>> Subject: Cleaning Sensors
>>
>>
>>> Or more specifically the sensor in my *istD.
>>>
>>> Is this a do-at-home project or something best left to professionals?
>>>
>>> If I can do it myself, how?
>>>
>>> If I take it to a shop, what's a reasonable price?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> This make people cringe, but I lock the mirror up and shoot the sensor with
>> canned gas.
>> It seems to work, and I haven't hurt anything yet.
>> I mentioned this on ForumsNeurotica and got soundly thrashed for
>> recommending a cleaning method that would surely wreck the camera, so I
>> challenged the good people there to come up with one single instance where
>> they could verify canned gas wrecking a camera.
>> The closest I got was a guy who met a guy coming out of a camera store who
>> had apparently done some damage to his camera while cleaning it, but it
>> wasn't really verifiable that the canned gas was the culprit...
>>
>> William Robb
>>
> I do the same thing. Buy a good quality brand and there's no problems. I
> did have a bargain price product that spit liquid propellant, which would
> probably craze the low pass filter, but I'd never use that on anything
> sensitive.
>
I've ruined negatives with cans of gas that spit liquid. I definitely wouldn't
risk using it on a sensor. Yeah, you can probably get away with it most of the
time. But why take a chance? There are better tools with which to clean a
sensor.
Paul
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