09-01-2014, 07:27 AM
The topic of sensor cleaning has a great deal of mystery attached to it, most of it to do with paranoia.
I bought the Reidl wet clean sensor kit on line. It contains paddle swabs (you order the kit for your sensor size APSc/FF/ M4/3rds) and a bottle cleaning liquid (refined alcohol) and some lens cleaning cloth in a nice woven nylon case. Refill kits are also available., ten paddles and fluid.
It's a two minute job to pass the paddle whetted with two drops of fluid across the sensor two or three times, then I check visually with +4 reading glasses to check for specs. Theoretically you use the paddles once only, but I have used them many times each.
Reading your posts makes me think that I have been lucky in my choice of kit as I have never had any problems, BTW.the fluid is there to ensure the dust sticks to the paddle, however the oil problem with certain sensors could require several attempts to remove all traces of it, thankfully Pentax has not had this problem!
Sending a camera away to have the sensor cleaned each time there are a few specks of dust seems ludicrous for a task that takes a few minutes. The kit is even with me when I'm out on a shoot.
I bought the Reidl wet clean sensor kit on line. It contains paddle swabs (you order the kit for your sensor size APSc/FF/ M4/3rds) and a bottle cleaning liquid (refined alcohol) and some lens cleaning cloth in a nice woven nylon case. Refill kits are also available., ten paddles and fluid.
It's a two minute job to pass the paddle whetted with two drops of fluid across the sensor two or three times, then I check visually with +4 reading glasses to check for specs. Theoretically you use the paddles once only, but I have used them many times each.
Reading your posts makes me think that I have been lucky in my choice of kit as I have never had any problems, BTW.the fluid is there to ensure the dust sticks to the paddle, however the oil problem with certain sensors could require several attempts to remove all traces of it, thankfully Pentax has not had this problem!
Sending a camera away to have the sensor cleaned each time there are a few specks of dust seems ludicrous for a task that takes a few minutes. The kit is even with me when I'm out on a shoot.