dust on a P&S's sensor?

[OceanRider]

Hey all,

Have any of you P&S owners every shot a blue sky and blown it up on PS to see if you have a perfectly clean sensor?

I am jsut curious. With DSLR's we have to clean the sensor periodically, I wonder if CANON makes them in a dust free enviroment or a re they full of dust.

I plan on buying one (a P&S) but it would drive me crazy to see dust spots on my image, as you can't clean it like a DSLR

Thanks Joel

[Moppie]

Im on my second A series, and Iv never had any problems.

[pradeep1]

I've never seen dust on the sensor of a powershot series camera before.

[OceanRider]

have you really looked? I mean have you shot boue sky and examined it? Just curious. Sometimes its hard to see but once u know what your looking for you see it!

[snapshooter]

P&S camera's rarely (almost never) get dust into the body, but they do suffer from molds like DSLR's do.... I've had a p&s canon s45, took it the beach, up a mountain, droped it a couple of times, accidentally banged it to a steel frame of a chair and it is still fine... That is until the hot pixel I discovered this weekend... but this is from normal wear and tear. Maybe I've taken sunsets shots one too many... That is why I inspected a few test images, except for that 1 pixel that appears in dark images, the images are still clean. For 2 years of rigorous use, I think its fine.

[Moppie]

have you really looked? I mean have you shot boue sky and examined it?


Several times, I can say with a very high degree of certianty there are no bunnies breeding in my A80.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Moppie/IMG_4733crop.jpg

[foobar]

Well, it looks like *I* have this problem. Sometime in the last few weeks, my Canon PowerShot s400 seems to have managed to gather a dust spot on the sensor. Now my question is: what should I do?? A guy at the local Ritz shop said it would probably cost 170-200 bucks to get the thing cleaned -- almost enough for a new camera these days.

Does anyone know where I can get directions to open this baby up and clean it myself?

[OceanRider]

ahhh, youd have to take it in I bet.....real drag, thats my worries in buying one....

[Moppie]

thats my worries in buying one....

Its such an uncommon problem its not worth worring about.
Its like the chance of being stuck by lightening, its not high enough to be a problem, otherwise no one would ever go outside.

And its something that can effect any camera, digital, or film. Dust in the lens, or body of a film camera can cause just as many problems as dust in a digital camera.



foobar The S400 is getting pretty old now, if its well and truely outside its warrenty, and the dust is so bad its ruining your photos you might try dissassembling the camera and cleaning the sensor yourself.
google and yahoo would be the best place to start, somewhere out there will be at the least basic instructions, and if your technicaly minded you won't even need instructions.
Then follow the same cleaning precedures used by the DSLR owners to clean thier sensors once you have exposed it.
Easy to follow instructions for that are in the SLR section of the forums, or spread all around the internet.

[foobar]

OceanRider -- I think Moppie is right; I see lots and lots of these small P&S digicams, and mine is the first instance of dust on the sensor that I've ever heard of. Just buy one and enjoy it.

On the other hand, I'm still left hanging somewhat. It's only one dust spot, and it's easy enough to clean up in Photoshop, but I really don't want to have to post-process every shot I take (although to be completely honest, the spot is only visible in certain kinds of pictures...blue sky, etc.).

I *am* pretty technically minded, and I'm perfectly willing to open the camera up and try to clean the sensor myself (yes, I'm way out of warranty). But I *would* like to have some kind of disassembly guide to use as a reference. If anyone can point me to one, I'd be eternally grateful.