CMOS Cleaning @ Canon = Long Wait

[canon_user808]

I just dropped off my 1D MKII for sensor cleaning and the Canon Service Center here in Honolulu. I was told that it usually takes them 3-4 day to complete the service. :( Has anyone else had to wait like this for a CMOS cleaning?

[sp00g3]

I just dropped off my 1D MKII for sensor cleaning and the Canon Service Center here in Honolulu. I was told that it usually takes them 3-4 day to complete the service. :( Has anyone else had to wait like this for a CMOS cleaning?

Bah, order some pecpads and eclipse.. :P

The stuff is awesome! I was able to clean my sensor in 20 minutes!

[ron chappel]

Yes,do it yourself for sure :D :D

Just don't try just before you have to go out and shoot.Allow yourself a couple of spare hours to have a first attempt,check it on the computer,do again if nessesary,etc

[rick barclay]

There's an excellent tutorial on how to clean your sensor with pec pads in the All the Best EOS Links thread of the =Read First=-EOS "Sticky" Thread at the top of this page. It cost me $25 for the material and a little time to read
the tutorial twice or thrice, and it's much, much preferable to giving your
camera to Canon to clean.

[canon_user808]

Bah, order some pecpads and eclipse.. :P

The stuff is awesome! I was able to clean my sensor in 20 minutes!

I would but nobody ships the eclipse solution. Anyone know of any alternative?

[defordphoto]

Bah, order some pecpads and eclipse.. :P

The stuff is awesome! I was able to clean my sensor in 20 minutes!

I would but nobody ships the eclipse solution. Anyone know of any alternative?

http://www.glazerscamera.com/

Call them. They shipped Eclipse to me.

[robertwgross]

I don't know why you don't do it yourself.

I've cleaned my camera's sensor a few dozen times. Now it takes me about one minute, and it requires one cotton swab and a half-drop of ordinary lens cleaner.

---Bob Gross---

[Belmondo]

I discovered a 'blob' on my Mk II sensor, and hand carried it to the Canon repair center in Irvine. They cleaned it for me while I waited. It took about 20 minutes.

I guess I looked worried, so they took pity on me.

[robertwgross]

I'll bet the 'blob' was just desert crud.

---Bob Gross---

[Belmondo]

I'll bet the 'blob' was just desert crud.

---Bob Gross---

It might have been, but more likely, it was Virginia crud. The last time I'd had the lens off the body was in Williamsburg, and that's where the spot first turned up.

Desert crud is different. I've dealt with my share of it.

[robertwgross]

Desert crud is different. I've dealt with my share of it.

You mean that sticky white alkalai stuff that sticks to your shoes?

It's probably not too good for the innards of a good camera.

---Bob Gross---

[Belmondo]

Desert crud is different. I've dealt with my share of it.

You mean that sticky white alkalai stuff that sticks to your shoes?

It's probably not too good for the innards of a good camera.

---Bob Gross---

I do a lot of preemptive sensor blowing…..usually in the morning before I leave the house, whenever I change a lens, and at the end of every day. I’m not sure it does any good to do it that often, but I seem to have less trouble than a lot of people, and I’m in a very dusty area.

[rick barclay]

Ahhhh, Williamsburg--spent two of the most glorious years of my life there
in the mid 1970's. Revisited my old haunts this past January. Me and about ten of my cohabitants helped build the Hospitality House across the
street from William & Mary Stadium. Wonderful place.

Anyway, I used to swear by the bulb blower method, but not so anymore.
If you do the recommended exercise and shoot a picture of clear sky
at f/22, you'll be amazed as what you'll see in the d/l'd image. I know I
was. That's what convinced me to go the pec pad route. The tutorial also explains in good logic why a blower and other methods don't work (IMO).

[jcsorensen]

Federal Aviation regulations prevent Eclipse from being shipped to Hawaii--on the mainland it is only shipped overland.

I checked with our Graphics Department at my work and they said they just used Kodak lens cleaner to clean their sensors. I braved it and gave it a try. It took a few attemps, but after I got the amount of fluid to use correct (much less that I expected), I got 99 percent of my year's collection of dust bunnies.

Just my 2 cents worth--and it comes with no guarantees, but it worked for me.

[robertwgross]

That's what I've been telling everybody here for the last year or two. Just enough lens fluid to wet the cotton swab. Works great.

If you get a bunch (like three drops of liquid) on the sensor, it will run off and you will have a mess and possibly damage things.

---Bob Gross---

[canon_user808]

Thanks all! Guess I'll do a little more research and try it myself next time.