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Camera and sensor cleaning

Camera and sensor cleaning - 5D Tutorial

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Camera and sensor cleaning

Basic maintenance of your camera is pretty intuitive: don't drop it, don't bang it into things; if you want to clean it, use a dry cloth. If you are going to store the camera for a while, be sure to take the battery out of it. You've already seen a little bit about how the camera cleans its own sensor, but there are some other built-in sensor cleaning options. By default, your Mark III cleans its sensor any time you turn the camera on or off. You can change that behavior, and take a little more control of the cleaning function by going to page 3 of the setup menu, and going to the Sensor cleaning option. So I've got a few different choices in here. Auto cleaning can either be enabled or disabled. This simply controls whether the camera does clean its censor when you turn it off and on. Clean now simply goes through the sensor cleaning cycle right now. So if I've reviewed an image, and seen a big dust spot on it, I would come in here and tell it to clean its sensor again. It's doing a…

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