Question: Does anyone know how to clean the cmos?

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Backbone wrote:
> Is there some type of chemical that I can use to clean the (canon)
cmos sensor?
> I'm sittin here with a Q-tip and a bottle of Windex <grin> perhaps
I'll leave
> out the Windex and just try and remove spec with Q-tip i.e. have
already tried
> to blow off with a squeeze blower and air-compressor @ 20psi i.e.,
don't want
> to damage the cmos!. How does the canon tech guys do it?
>
> I have a Canon EOS-1D Mark II
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Google "sensor cleaning".

Or: http://www.pbase.com/copperhill/ccd_cleaning
http://www.photo.net/equipment/digital/sensorcleaning/
http://www.visibledust.com/sensorbrush.htm

Fercrissakes, though, use that damned Q tip to clean your ear, not the
sensor.

If you have to have a quick and ready cure, get a can of air and a
make-up brush. Blow the air through the bursh a half dozen times from
all different directions, follow manual directions for raising the
mirror, and--lightly and carefully--brush the sensor filter off.

Then check out the above.

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Backbone <backboneaccessflaps@flapscomcast.net> wrote:
>
> Is there some type of chemical that I can use to clean the (canon) cmos sensor?
> I'm sittin here with a Q-tip and a bottle of Windex <grin> perhaps I'll leave
> out the Windex and just try and remove spec with Q-tip i.e. have already tried
> to blow off with a squeeze blower and air-compressor @ 20psi i.e., don't want
> to damage the cmos!. How does the canon tech guys do it?
>
> I have a Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Yes, but you might want to try a cleaning brush first. Try reading
the following:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ [...] dust.shtml
http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont [...] tml?page=1

You can buy brushes from

http://www.visibledust.com/sensor_brush_details.html

or if you're feeling confident, the second link from the top shows you
a much cheaper way to come up with cleaning brushes, and if that
doesn't quite do it, Visible Dust also sells a liquid cleaner much
safer than commercial glass cleaners:

http://www.visibledust.com/sensor_clean_details.html

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Thanks guys, you were ALL a big help!

Spec Removed!!!
Had a hell of a time getting a piece of gook off the cmos sensor of my camera.
ended up using a Q-Tip, with a drop of "Delta 1 OFR" comes in a spray bottle! I
sprayed into a cup, and dropped one drop onto a Q-tip. I used gloves and
carefully rolled (to remove fuzz) Q-tip between my fingers.
Opened the shutter, and from one end of the sensor I (as instructed by a canon
tech guy!!!!) swabbed the entire cmos with a slight pressure and then back again
until all the liquid evaporated. Had to do it several times until I got it
perfect! Well, it seems to work. everything seems to be okay! 1 day at 400+ nice
shots later.... :-) am a happy camper, once again!

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"Backbone" <backboneaccessflaps@flapscomcast.net> wrote in message
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> Is there some type of chemical that I can use to clean the (canon) cmos
sensor?
> I'm sittin here with a Q-tip and a bottle of Windex <grin> perhaps I'll leave
> out the Windex and just try and remove spec with Q-tip i.e. have already tried
> to blow off with a squeeze blower and air-compressor @ 20psi i.e., don't want
> to damage the cmos!. How does the canon tech guys do it?
>
> I have a Canon EOS-1D Mark II
> --
> There are no words that can be heard unless someone listens....
> Remove *flaps* to reply
>
>