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Cleaning the sensor with moisture

Cleaning the sensor with moisture

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Cleaning the sensor with moisture

- This week, on The Practicing Photographer, I'm going to pour liquid inside this camera. Alright, that's not really what I'm gonna do, but when you're cleaning your sensor with a wet solution, that's what it feels like. You can't help it, it feels like you've got a fire hose, because it just seems so wrong. In two previous installments of this series, you've seen me battling sensor dust. In the first installment, I went after it with a blower bulb and got rid of a lot of it. In the end of the last one, I had gone after it with a specially designed dry brush, and that got rid of a lot more. Here's where I started, and this is a shot of the sensor, taken by putting the aperture at f/22, de-focusing the camera, and pointing it towards a bare, white wall. You can see a lot of dust spots on there. Here is where I'm at now, this is after the blower brush and the Arctic Butterfly Visible Dust brush that I used last time. It's doing pretty good, but there's just a few stubborn pieces that I…

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