Dust issues with digital cameras

[Napper]

I don't understand it but in the last few weeks I have developed serious dust issues with my lenses , mirror and ccd,

I  am always careful when changing lenses and that  happens rarely.(changing lenses that is)

Today while I was off of work I decided to to something about it.  I removed my main lense  vacuumed the bayonet end not letting the lense come in contact with the vacuum. The camera next  I  carefully brought the nozzel  near  mount and held it there, then  locked the mirror and did the same with the ccd.


have done a few  dust ref images and It appears to be pretty much clean..

My previous lense had a fleck of paint internally  stuck to an element.  Has any one else tried this or am I  the only one sick of dust ..Napper

 :lol:

[Iain]

Hi,

I get dust spots all the time too and they're super frustrating.  I bought a cleaning kit from Henrys downtown and it works pretty well.  They cautioned me against cleaning it myself and advised me to send it away to Canon for professional cleaning but I ignored their advice and so far I'm glad I did.  The kit is comprised of a tube of solution and three small wipes attached to plastic sticks (so that you can easily reach the ccd).  You drop the solution on the wipe and gently 'squeegee' the ccd.  Works everytime.

Iain

[Wulff]

Havent had clean mine yet but the days coming and Im not looking forwards to it. My first go around with it will be by nothing other than a blower. One of those things with dlsr's I guess.
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[David Shilman]

...have done a few  dust ref images and It appears to be pretty much clean...

Can you 'splain?

Thanks,

David

PS  Just got the new Canon Rebel XTi, and it has some new kind of dust cleaning system.

[Wulff]

Its a quick way to see how much dust has accumulated, Set the camera to f22 and take a picture of a white wall or grey sky. Any dust on the sensor will show in the picture.
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[surfinbird]

I have had some problems with dust and I took my rebel xt to Canon and they cleaned it for free . I don't know if they will do it now since it's over a year old . I may have to take in my 20d and I'm hoping they will do it for free. When I take it in I will get a firmware update which they will do  for free . The owner of a nice camera store called Photo Creative on Timberlea in Mississauga  says that he has a new product that is charged some how with static to take the dust off the sensor . I don't rember what it's called or works but they at Photo creative highly recommend it.
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[Tom Cudzilo]

If the dust wont budge with a blower then buy solution and wipes from a photo store and do it yourself. Its not diff and if you are not a complete dummy you wont brake anything. Dust is a part of any slr camera and no matter how careful you are it will always be there. Its easier to just close out few dust particles in post processing then to worry about it in the field.

[Kin Lau]

I use "Speckgrabber" for our family's 3 dslrs, and it works fine. Once the mirror is up, and you look at the sensor at the correct angle, you can physically see the dust.