Oh, the glee in your voice! :-)
I do consider it a non-issue. I've had the 5D for 15 months and have
cleaned it once and it now needs it again for a single spot in the
center of the frame. Although I say I've used the Copperhill method and
the brush method I consider both of them part of a single cleaning.
When I first tried the Copperhill method with Eclipse and PecPads the
first pass made the sensor much *worse* than before I started. It took
two or three more passes to get it back to the point that it was
slightly better than before I started. That's when I quit until I
bought some brushes on ebay and then continued with the brush method.
Since the brushes were new and not designed for cleaning sensors it took
a while to prepare them and make sure they were clean. Once clean I
made one forward and one back stroke with each of the two brushes. Two
strokes to cover the sensor because it's 24mm wide and my brushes are
only 13mm wide. That left only 3 small specks only visible against a
bright sky at f/16 or smaller. That was time to stop. It hasn't needed
to be cleaned again until two days ago since it now has one visible spot
at f/8. When I do get around to the cleaning (real soon now) I expect
it will take not more than 1 or two minutes.
Chuck Norcutt
AG Schnozz wrote:
> Dr. Maid wrote:
>> I bought a couple of cosmetic mask brushes on ebay...
>> ...But a little soap and water and rinsing fixed that easily.
> I'm so glad that dust on the sensor is a non-issue for Canon/Nikon
> users. :) The ONE and ONLY time I've ever cleaned a sensor I just
> cut a small piece of Swiffer and wrapped it around a Q-tip. Worked
> like a charm. Took me two years and 20,000 pictures to finally do it
> too, and that's only because the spots were showing up on my pinhole
> pictures.
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