Sensor Cleaning and Return Time?

Really quick question, I am sending my 30D into the shop- Ritz Camera for a sensor cleaning. How much am I expected to pay and the return time on my camera?

how much are they charging?

oh yes.how much does it cost.

Quoted £37 and complete in under 1 hour from a local establishment up in Scotland !

do it yourself. who knows where they will send it and how much they will charge. this is a routine performance that takes a very short amount of time, and is very easy to do.

I know Mikes Camera wants 5 to 7 days and $60 for sensor cleaning....

cool...that is affordable. I dont want to screw up the cleaning.

its not a 1 time thing, you will continually need to do this. If it helps, there is a thin piece of glass over the sensor, you aren't actually cleaning the individual pixels

Hello,

A local shop in Atlanta, GA (USA) charges $55. They do it locally, but the guy who does the work is only there a few hours a week, so when he shows up you pretty much have to wait in line.

I've not tried him yet, so I can't comment on how well he does, but it seems to be a popular service.

I'm thinking about investing $140 at B&H for a Visible Dust kit. Seems pretty fool-proof. The only problem is that we have 1.6x, 1.3x, and soon, 1.0x crop factor bodies. I don't really want to buy different kits for each body.

Anyone had experience using the 1.6x Visible Dust kit on a larger sensor? What's the downside (besides having to do multiple passes)?

Listen to coreypolis ... he speaketh the truth ...

Do you have a Rocket blower, and have you been following the cleaning instructions in your 30D manual? A Rocket blower only costs $10 and you can clean your sensor at least a thousand times with it if you like. And the time it takes per cleaning is about two minutes.

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …EG&addedTroughT​ype=search

This topic has been covered well on this forum, and very well on the dpreview.com forum. There is a very good thread over there with a post by Jim H.

Cleaning the sensor filter is no more difficult than changing lenses. It takes me no more than five minutes for a "wet cleaning".

With all due respect to previous posters, a blower may take some stuff off, but inevitably some "dust" will stick, and will require "wet cleaning". In six weeks, I've wet cleaned four or five times.

Bob_A wrote in post #2259345
Listen to coreypolis ... he speaketh the truth ...

Do you have a Rocket blower, and have you been following the cleaning instructions in your 30D manual? A Rocket blower only costs $10 and you can clean your sensor at least a thousand times with it if you like. And the time it takes per cleaning is about two minutes.

http://www.bhphotovide​o.com …EG&addedTroughT​ype=search

From this post and what I have asked my photographer friends, take Bob's advice. I will be...btw, how often do we have to clean the Canon Digital Rebel? Is there a specific time frame (like every 3 mos? or every 500 shots? or just whenever there are black specks on the pictures?) Sorry ,I am new to digital photography(but have learned a lot from this website as well!)

I would never pay someone to clean my sensor when I can do it myself in 15 minutes. The process is so simple "even a caveman can do it"....

jmbboss wrote in post #2259557
From this post and what I have asked my photographer friends, take Bob's advice. I will be...btw, how often do we have to clean the Canon Digital Rebel? Is there a specific time frame (like every 3 mos? or every 500 shots? or just whenever there are black specks on the pictures?) Sorry ,I am new to digital photography(but have learned a lot from this website as well!)

I clean mine whenever I see a few specks in images and it becomes a chore to clone them out in Photoshop. Keep in mind that even with a moderately dirty sensor you're not even going to notice dust until you stop down past f/11. Typically you'll see spots in the sky when shooting at f/16 or f/22.

I only clean my sensor 3 or 4 times a year.