![]() They will generally not be visible when taking everyday photos at a much higher aperture. I’m thinking that they must’ve always shot wide open, because, after I offered to have a look at their sensor for them, I was genuinely shocked at how much dust, dirt and hairs were coating their sensor (it looked like a shag carpet to my eyes!!).My DSLR's sensor gets dust on it periodically, I think usually while taking the lens off, and while I have materials to clean it and am able to keep the number of dust particles on it very negligible, I find it extremely difficult to keep absolutely dust free and still find that more often than not, there will still be a handful of small dust specs visible if I take an out of focus photo of a white screen at a low aperture such as f/22. Once, at a music festival, I met a conflict photojournalist who hadn’t ever cleaned their sensor (they were using a small-sensor camera, an Olympus of some type, if i remember correctly). A blower, and sometimes a SensorKlear pad, are all I need to get rid of any dust (it’s rare for me to get the persistent liquid/oil spots on my Sony sensors that I get on my NIkon DLSR sensors, so I very rarely need to do a wet clean). Takes a bit of practice to see the very tiniest dust, I angle the loupe so its LEDs hit the dust obliquely and light it up. I don’t bother with the f/22 technique anymore, as I now have an illuminated loupe to examine the sensor. ![]() But then I’m a timelapse photographer, and even very diffuse dust spots (close to wide open, at, say, f/5.6), are quite obvious, as they are still while the scene moves over them in the rendered movies.Īnd this is with careful, and infrequent, changing of lenses. I clean my mirrorless cameras’ sensors very carefully before every shoot. There is zero reason to be cleaning it this much. ![]() I've cleaned my 6D's sensor ONCE in the years I've owned it because there was visible artifacts at wider apertures. There's no use getting this worked up and crazy cleaning something that auto-cleans itself. All modern cameras have a self-clean when the camera turns off or on.Ĭlean your sensor when you see artifacts showing up at f/8. There is ZERO need to be cleaning your sensor constantly. You're really over-reacting on cleaning your sensor and being that paranoid may actually cause more harm than good. Nor is anything bad going to happen to the camera without a lens on it if it's just placed down. You're not going to destroy your sensor or lenses by taking them off the camera and taking a few seconds to swap them out. One guy even sets his body down without a lens on it sometimes. I seem to be doing everything right but I'm not sure hw I'm having more issues than others. When I do change them I'll put my back to the wind, hold the new lens in one hand while removing the other with my other hand and make a quick swap. I try not to change lenses while out but I do sometimes. I clean my gear in a room and I'll turn on an air filter a couple of hours before I start. You introduce light infraction at f/16 and higher. You're actually more apt to LOSE sharpness. There is almost zero reason to shoot at f/22. Is it just that they never shoot at f22 so even though their sensor is dirty they don't see it? Maybe they operate in cleaner environments? ![]() I seem to be doing everything right but I'm not sure how I'm having more issues than others. When I do change them I'll put my back to the wind and swap within a second but even then I'll see dust and have to get out my rocket duster to fix it. I clean my gear in a room with an air filter running before each shoot. ![]() I've talked to others that say they've only had to clean theirs a couple of times in 4 years and they shoot a lot. started doing this because sensor dust became an issue in my photos and videos. I'll set it to f22 and check against the sky otr a white wall. I have to clean the sensor on my sony A6600 mirrorless camera almost every time I go out. ![]()
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