![]() ![]() ![]() Either way the sensor is super clean compared to the initial test image.Ĭleaning your sensor is not difficult, you do need to be careful but it’s very worth the effort. Or you may want to give the sensor another round of swabbing. Depending on your preferences, you may be happy with this knowing that it’s a few easy clicks of the clone tool to remove these small faint marks. There are still three spots but all the big blobs, and large dust particles are gone. Image of sensor dust after using Sensor Swabs. You can get the swabs in exactly the right size for your sensor, so one swipe in each direction could be all you need. Think of it as a tiny Swiffer for your sensor. Used with a few drops of Eclipse cleaning fluid they will wipe you sensor clean. Sensor swabs are specially designed cleaning pads for camera sensors. Step 2) Using Sensor Swabs and Eclipse Fluid Sooner or later, even those photographers with auto-clean cameras will have to wash their sensors using this manual method, Step 2 below. If you don’t have this feature on your camera, don’t worry, there is a way to manually clean your sensor. But with some patience, and providing your sensor is not as bad as the example in my image above, you’ll be relatively free of most of your sensor dirt in a few minutes. You may have to repeat this process several times. When you use this tool, the camera gives the sensor a series of micro-vibrations that “shake” the dust loose, in theory anyway. Look for it in the Tools menu on your camera. ![]() Many newer DSLRs have a special function for automatically cleaning the sensor. But if you see the dreaded black specs, read on. Horrors! Do you see it? Hopefully your sensor dust won’t look as bad as mine, above. What I do then, is open the image in Photoshop and click on Auto Tone (under the Images Menu item). To see if you have sensor dust right now, so you won’t be surprised when you’re out in the field shooting, stop down to the smallest aperture on your lens (the largest f-stop number, f/32 for example) and take a photo of a white or light colored wall. But one day you’ll want, or need, to set your aperture to f/8, or f/16 then sensor dust will become visible, almost as if from nowhere, to torment you, frame by frame. If you shoot wide open, or at larger apertures (smaller f-stop number, such as f/2.8) you may not really see any sensor gunk on your images unless you view them at 100% on your monitor. It’s quite possible that it does, but you may not know it. Check to make sure your sensor needs cleaning. ![]()
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