After Cleaning
July 7, 2008
After Cleaning, originally uploaded by William WM.
This is the amount of dust on the sensor after my first attempt at cleaning it with the “Sensor Swab” and Eclipse cleaner:
www.photosol.com/swabproduct.htm
You can find a tutorial video on the cleaning process here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSi27u4azQ
Not perfect, but a lot better than it was before. I’d imagine that another pass would get it even cleaner than this.
(I found this by taking a photo of a pure-white image on my LCD at ISO 100, f/22, macro focus at full zoom, then ran it through “Auto Levels” in Paint.NET)
August 15, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[...] August 15, 2008 Another excellent article from digital Photography School, about how to remove dust spots from your photos. I’m going to need to try this out on my own photos, especially after that full day of shooting with a dirty sensor (see the before/after examples here: http://blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/07/07/before-cleaning/ and here: http://blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/07/07/after-cleaning/) [...]