Dirty Sensor on New 10D?

[GrayLock]

Just bought a new 10D, and am surprised by the amount of dirt that seems to be on the sensor already (the camera is two days old). It has not been in an especially dusty environment or anything like that.


http://home.comcast.net/~rvansleet/cmos.html

Does this seem normal?

[nucki]

Just bought a new 10D, and am surprised by the amount of dirt that seems to be on the sensor already (the camera is two days old). It has not been in an especially dusty environment or anything like that.

http://www.geocities.com/rvansleet/IMG_0097.gif

Does this seem normal?

hmm... SHOULD not be normal, but.... ;-)

make a printout of this picture, go there where you bought the body and tell them that they should clean it! for free, for sure :)

regards
Peter

[defordphoto]

It's not unusual. Just clean it and move on. If you take it back to be cleaned they will send it to Canon and you'll be without for 2-3 weeks. It's not rocket science to blow dust off the sensor.

[nucki]

It's not unusual. Just clean it and move on. If you take it back to be cleaned they will send it to Canon and you'll be without for 2-3 weeks. It's not rocket science to blow dust off the sensor.

maybe there is a chance for changing. maybe they give you a new one, wich is not dirty! the question is, why is it dirty? was it allready sold? brought back for some reason? maybe the camera has an other error, wich by now you havent seen?

Peter

[damnengine]

I'd clean it but I'd also try to get to know why it's so dirty. I got my 10D 2 weeks ago and it was perfectly clean. Was there anything odd with the package?

[defordphoto]

My new MKII sensor had 8-10 little microbes on it. I blew them off and it's fine. Just because a new camera has dust on the sensor does not mean 's a used camera. The tiniest little microbe shows up as a log on these sensors. Again, it's not a big deal. Blow off the sensor and move on. It is not some big conspiracy. It's dust. It happens. It will happen again.

My 10D was perfectly clean when I got it. My D60 was not.

[damnengine]

It is not some big conspiracy.

http://www.damnengine.net/scrap/x-files.GIF

:shock:

[defordphoto]

:lol: :lol: ROFLMAO!

[GrayLock]

Was there anything odd with the package?

I bought the camera from B&H, and the packaging was fine. I doubt they'd try to pull anything. I'm now fairly convinced that dust just comes "pre-installed" on some cameras from Canon, and not on others. I will clean it, and move on! Thanks for all the comments.

[defordphoto]

I even sent my D60 to Canon for cleaning and it came back with more dust than it went down there with. Don't worry about it. It's just part of owning a dSLR.

Have fun!!

[saikidesign]

It is not a big deal to clean the sensor, but if you never done it, send to a Canon dealer to clean it for you. An other thing, just make sure sure you didn't buy a demo camera. It may not work but, how many pictures did you took so far with your new 10D? Have you checked in your CF card how many photos the camera is registering. It shoud start with something like IMG_0001 if this is a is brand new camera. Usually a brand new 10D come with file numbering set for "continuous". Doesn't metter if you change the CF card it keep recording the number of shots. If the mumbers are way too high there is a chance that you bought a "used" or a demo camera. My two cents. Good luck.

[defordphoto]

B&H does not sell used as new so there's no worries there. And resetting the numbering throws that theory out the window. Only Canon could tell exactly how many shutter actuations are on a camera.

Again (!), getting a new camera with dust on the sensor is not unusual.