I am an enthusiast owner and user of a 1Ds. I had a lot of problems with sensor cleaning. I tried to use the Sensor Swab witch looks like the tool described. I spend half day trying to clean it, spend a full box of Sensor Swab (70,00 €), I only succeeded to move dust to the corners without success to remove them away from there. I had to go to the Canon Service Repair. They currently do the job for free (two days if you are lucky, four if you are not). But I think you should be more careful about this issue and you should have checked this before :-)
What I do now is to use an ordinary air spray, smoothly, very smoothly, on a daily basis, to clean the sensor. With big spot I move to the Sensor Swab but this occurs rarely.
First step is to brush the camera, wash your hands, proceed in the more dust-free area, with a brush and with the camera facing the ground brush carefully the lens mount area, then smoothly clean with the air-spay the mirror and the room around, then clean the sensor. I had experienced that the sensor is dirty mainly on the right side (the camera facing you), so, pay attention to this area.
During all the process be careful to keep the air-spray as close as possible to the ambient temperature, if you use the air-spray too much, you will have drops projected to the sensor witch would be worse than the dust.
Try it with the front-lens, you will see that a smooth air spray will throw away most of the dust.
Proceed the cleaning in the "sensor cleaning" mode, not the bulb pose instead, because the electricity will attract the dust. DON'T SHAKE the air spay before using it.
For my own, I use to have not much than an average twenty or thirty dust spots on a pict.
But you should be aware that it is a daily task. I don't run it as an emergency.
I would be glad to read about others 1Ds owners about sensor cleaning as it is the main, and may be the one, hassle with this camera.
Have a great day and take care about your sensor.
Fernand Ivaldi Paris/France
Le 28 nov. 03, à 20:01, jonathan keenan a écrit :
Does anyone from the Manchester (UK) area know if any dealers do sensor cleaning (Canon 1Ds)?
Even better someone available on Saturday?
I have an job on Monday morning and it is critical and my own efforts would not be good enough I am sure.
Kind regards
Jonathan Keenan
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