Posted by Kent Staubus on March 13, 2007 at 10:26 AM
I finally had to clean the sensor for the first time on my D80. It had some specks on it. I used the Visible Dust brush. Somehow, I got a streak though, and it was hard to get rid of. I'm thinking I also need a liquid cleaner in case I get a smudge or smear. The Visible dust ones look well refined, but they have two different color of swabs, orange or green. I'm not sure which is which. They also have several formulas of liquid. What's a good choice of swab and fluid? I am waiting for the little sticky dust pads to become available next month that the guy here was talking about, but I'm still thinking a liquid cleaner for smudges might be useful.
Kent in SD
Posted by Bill Chambers on March 13, 2007 at 12:02 PM
I've never used the Visible Dust system so I can't help you there. When I have a really nasty sensor that the Sensor Sweep can't clean I use Eclipse fluid and a Pec Pad on a Copperhill spatula. Use any fluid VERY SPARINGLY - one drop should be enough, and don't put the drop directly on the sensor, put it on the pad you'll be using.
Posted by Carol Hyman on March 13, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Kent,
I've not had great success with visible dust but have been blaming myself. I finally picked up an adapter for my D100 and need to try again.
Maybe you can make head or tails from the following page.
http://visibledust.com/technology.php?TCID=10
Good luck. Let us know how successful you are.
I use a combination of wet orange swabs and dry arctic butterfly on my 1Ds (full frame).
I first use the butterfly to remove easy dust, then I use the wet swabs, but only if the stuff left is significant. I also have a few very slim swabs for corners, just in case I end up pushing lots of stuff on to one side. One of the tricks is to not use too much cleaning fluid.
Last clean required 4 large swab passes, one slim corner pass and a couple of dry butterfly passes but it ended up being completely spotless, as good as new (or better!!!!).
I really cant remember the difference between the orange and green swabs though.
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3 repliesKent in SD
I've not had great success with visible dust but have been blaming myself. I finally picked up an adapter for my D100 and need to try again.
Maybe you can make head or tails from the following page.
http://visibledust.com/technology.php?TCID=10
Good luck. Let us know how successful you are.
Carol Hyman
http://hy-tec-training.com
I first use the butterfly to remove easy dust, then I use the wet swabs, but only if the stuff left is significant. I also have a few very slim swabs for corners, just in case I end up pushing lots of stuff on to one side. One of the tricks is to not use too much cleaning fluid.
Last clean required 4 large swab passes, one slim corner pass and a couple of dry butterfly passes but it ended up being completely spotless, as good as new (or better!!!!).
I really cant remember the difference between the orange and green swabs though.