DO NOT USE DUST-AID!!!

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

my camera had alot of dust, and this is different story than the cotten swab thing i posted earlier. but i bought dust-aid, and i used it. at first i thought it was good. then i found out i set the aperture to f/4 so i took one at 22. it looked ok. then i imported it and used auto tone on photoshop. ewwww. the dust-aid added MORE dust, and i was being careful. in the first photo you can see the streak marks it left (that straight line of dust). i did not touch the dust-aid thing, and i used it carefully btw. but then i got the sensor swab and the eclipse liquid, and it sucked it all up with one swab, two swipes. i used f/32 infinity, and i used autotones. second photo is with sensor-swab. i highly recommend it. don't use any other product. though expensive, you might only need wet cleaning every month or so.

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

sorry for the low quality, i had to compress in photoshop

[LoganJ]

You have pics of this but no pics of your 1D IV?

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

btw this is from my 30d not my 1d mark iv because that would be just sad...

[Erik_L]

for real. please just go away, you're crushing my dreams. I guess people would rather see pictures of dust than a bad-ass camera.

[andrersa]

You should throw your lens out of focus for best indication of sensor dust.

[Erik_L]

Originally Posted by ohnetitelsayspandabear

btw this is from my 30d not my 1d mark iv because that would be just sad...

Seriously, getting a camera dusty that you don't even own!

[LoganJ]

Originally Posted by ohnetitelsayspandabear

btw this is from my 30d not my 1d mark iv because that would be just sad...

I saw that My point was you never posted pictures of your 1D IV.

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

Originally Posted by andrersa

You should throw your lens out of focus for best indication of sensor dust.

i did, i used f/32 and focused it to infinity, and i was like a foot away from a white wall

[logiclee]

A wet clean every month?

I'm carefull when I change lenses sure but in 4 years of digital SLR photography I've never needed one.

A blow out with a rocket blower every now and again and the odd clean with an Artic Butterfly brush every few months has always taken care of the dust.

Are you taking pictures in a coal mine or something?

Cheers
Lee

[Syntaxxor]

^ Agreed.

Just what are you doing that warrants that type of cleaning every month? I've never had to clean my lil XS or even my older Rebel 2000 (EVER).

[Larry Weinman]

There was a problem with DustAid a year or two ago. Apparently it was destroying a certain type of Canon sensor, can't remember which one but I have avoided that product ever since.

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

well i do one every month, because, well i do it :/ (scratches head). but will everybody please stop talking about my other thread about the iv. sheesh. i get more views here than on my youtube. so many canon geeks here...

[Luke Cern]

Originally Posted by ohnetitelsayspandabear

well i do one every month, because, well i do it :/ (scratches head). but will everybody please stop talking about my other thread about the iv. sheesh. i get more views here than on my youtube. so many canon geeks here...

The straight lines of dust suggest that the Dust Aid pad is already contaminated at its edge and it's leaving a line of dust on the sensor. The reason I suggest that is that you don't drag the Dust Aid across the sensor, so you you would never get a such a line under normal use.
Dust Aid is a use-once system. You never put a pad back inside the camera once used.

[ohnetitelsayspandabear]

i was using the platinum version and i use the adheisive included. the platinum sucks more than the first one. dumbass