Cleaning Kit

[wagsalot]

Can anyone recommend a cleaning kit I can buy for my 350D?

Or know of anyone in Sydney that will give the insides a good clean for me?? .... little worried about wrecking it!

[rubiton]

There seems to be two solutions (does it really need cleaning? Are you having problems with the images? - only asking as I took my older SLRS in all sorts of dusty conditions and never had a problem. Just ensure that when changing lens its inside or the cleanest area you can find. The newer ones have inbuilt sensor cleaning)

One is to buy a kit and follow the instructions or take it to a camera place that will do repairs etc. A lot of the camera info on cleaning them said that if you touch the wrong part then you can stuff up the sensor but others seems quite happy to clean their sensors themselves.

However if you take it somewhere for repairs see if it needs to be sent away or if repairs are done on site as you'd probably only want someone who is on site who has the skills to clean and not damage as opposed to a major repair.

[Luke W]

What Rubiton said.

Does it need a clean - are you seeing dust spots on your images? They'll show up in blue skies when shooting at smaller apertures.

I use a sensor brush and for stubborn marks - eclispse fluid and a lens cloth wrapped around a cotton bud.

[wagsalot]

I can see dust on my photo's that I took last week for my uni assignment. Luckily I was able to photoshop it out as it was only up in one corner.

I've had dust on it once before and a quick blow got it off, but this time no such luck.

Edited to add - my manual says to put the camera in sensor cleaning mode and tells you ahd to do it, however my camera doesn't even have that option.

Take that back..I found it. Didn't realise you had to have it on a certain mode.

Edited July 27, 2008 by wagsalot