Sensor Cleaning = Duh? (I need help)

Folks - I have never cleaned the sensor on my Mark III. Should I always rely on the built in sensor cleaner or should I purchase a cleaning product like the Artic Butterfly or such. I really am clueless on this issue and any suggestions or techniques would be quite helpful.

I've only cleaned my sensor with a rocket blower, so I can't be of much help. But I can say that sensor cleaning has been discussed in dozens of threads. Besides the search feature, another option is to scroll down to the bottom of this page and check out the "Similar Threads".

Bryan

Built-in dust "shaker" won't take care of much as I've found on my 40D.

I got the Eclipse pads and solution. Took care of my sensors no problem when the rocket blower wouldn't take care of everything.

Watch a few sensor cleaning videos on youtube or wherever and you'll be fine. It's not that hard.

OK Thanks, I'll check them out. Seems like you guys prefer the rocket blower. Anyone with experience with other cleaners?

Using the eclipse swapbs is surprisingly easy. I was veeery apprehensive about trying them out, but one of my mates had tried it and said it worked like a charm. I had quite a lot of dust on my sensor so I had to do it twice, but when I was finished there wasn't a single speck of dust that I could find looking at a picture of a bright white piece of paper taken at f/22.

PS: I have a EOS 30D, it does not have built-in dust removal...

Not that difficult to do. Just remember to use a fully-charged battery when doing so. Also, the sensor position is flipped and inverted from your image...when looking at your image, a dust bunny in the upper right will actually be on the lower left section of the sensor (gives you an idea of where the heaviest build-ups may be).

I use rocket blower first and if that don't fix it I move onto the lenspen sensorklear, which seems to fix everything

Rocket blower first, several times until I see its not getting any better.

Copperhill sensor brush, again several times until I see its not getting any better.

Last resort: Wet swabs.

argyle wrote in post #7095694
Not that difficult to do. Just remember to use a fully-charged battery when doing so. Also, the sensor position is flipped and inverted from your image...when looking at your image, a dust bunny in the upper right will actually be on the lower left section of the sensor (gives you an idea of where the heaviest build-ups may be).

yes, but only when you look at the camera from behind. when you look through the front opening - as you will when cleaning the sensor - a dust bunny on the upper right of the image will be in the lower right on the sensor.

argyle wrote in post #7095694
Not that difficult to do. Just remember to use a fully-charged battery when doing so. Also, the sensor position is flipped and inverted from your image...when looking at your image, a dust bunny in the upper right will actually be on the lower left section of the sensor (gives you an idea of where the heaviest build-ups may be).

Argyle, what do you use? Thanks

joepineapple wrote in post #7095963
Argyle, what do you use? Thanks

1.) Rocket blower...be sure not to place the tip of the blower beyond the lip of the lens mount opening...lessens the chance of bumping into something delicate, like the sensor.
2.) Lens pen sensor cleaner...after blowing off the loose stuff, this usually does it for me.
3.) If there's a persistent dust bunny or two, I'll followup the sensor pen with a wet clean (I'm using a Delkin liquid with the included swabs...not for any special reason other than its all that a shop in Wyoming had on hand when I really needed something).