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I love photography so I just purchased my first SLR – a Canon EOS Digital Rebel Xt 350D. I’ve only used it a few times, but recently I noticed that there are spots showing up in my photos. I’d like to clean the lens since it’s obviously dirty, but I’m not exactly sure how to safely clean the camera, especially on the inside.
I love photography so I just purchased my first SLR – a Canon EOS Digital Rebel Xt 350D. I’ve only used it a few times, but recently I noticed that there are spots showing up in my photos. I’d like to clean the lens since it’s obviously dirty, but I’m not exactly sure how to safely clean the camera, especially on the inside.
Thanks in advance.
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5 Responses to “How do I clean my digital SLR?”
Take it to a real camera shop (the one that you bought it from if its a real camera shop) and ask there. They can show you what to do and not to do, right there in front of you.
There will be a setting on your camera that will open your shutter and leave it open until you turn off your camera.
You will need to look in your manual for “cleaning the sensor”. It will tell you how to open your shutter.
Then you will need cleaning swabs. There are a few manufactures. Here is a link for one of them:
be careful when you clean. DON’T use to much cleaning fluid. If you make the swab to wet it will leave spots like water spots on a glass. Only make the swab a little damp.
What I do is use a damp one to clean and then a dry one to dry off any fluid.
A trick i figuared out to see if the sensor is clean is as follows:
I set my camera at a shutter speed of 2 sec. i aim it at a white wall with some light on it. I move the camera up and down as I open the shutter. what this does is make the image a blur. Open the image in Photoshop and anything thats not a blur is a spot on the sensor.
AND the most important thing is make sure your batteries are fully charged. I was cleaning a camera I had and the batteries went dead and closed the shutter when I was cleaning the sensor. it screwed up the shutter blades and cost me $ 450.00 to replace.
just go to a camera shop
Go to a Camera ‘repair’ shop. Make sure they can do repair and SHOW it to you. Get tips, learn tricks, and buy the necessary tools. Then you may opt to do it on your own. Since digital cameras are more sensitive, my suggestion is never mess with the innards, Outside work, basic lens cleaning will have to suffice. Otherwise, be prepared for the consequences.
In the Owner’s Manual for the camera there is a section on “Care and Cleaning” of your camera. It will tell you how to clean the exterior of the camera and the lens.
Take your camera to a real camera store and buy a lens cloth. There are several brands. Buy a lens brush (sometimes called a “lipstick brush because it looks like a tube of lipstick) to remove any loose dust on the lens. Ask the salesperson to show you how to use the brush and cloth. Once your lens is clean, buy a UV/Haze filter or Skylight filter and keep it on your lens. Buy a quality filter – Heliopan, Singh-Ray, B+W, Tiffen, Hoya. You may as well buy a circular polarizer while you’re there. A polarizer can be used to darken a blue sky and remove glare from water, leaves, sand, glass, snow and painted metal – but not polished metal.
Cleaning a filter is always better than cleaning a lens. Replacing a filter is also much cheaper.
Have them check the sensor and clean it if needed. They may offer to sell you one of rhe several sensor cleaners available.
In 37 years I have never used a liquid lens cleaner. Since every lens I own (except my 16mm full-frame fisheye) is protected by either a UV/Haze filter or Skylight filter all I do is brush off any loose dust and then use my lens cloth to finish the job. If there’s a smudge, I simply breathe on the lens and then use the lens cloth.
Never be tempted to use canned air like you’d use on your keyboard to clean inside your camera. That is almost a guarantee that you’ll be spending money on repairs. A bulb-type blower brush maybe, used with the lens mount pointed down.
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