The with the camera and lens facing down on the mount I take the body off the lens, (clean the contacts with an alcohol swab every few weeks) and keeping the body facing down I blow off the inside of the box and then keeping it facing down put it on the new lens. Then get the lens going on on the camera sitting up right and ready to mount with the rear cap off. Next I use the rocket blower to blow off all the way round the lens/body mount. Then I use a swifter duster and gently clean around the lens and camera body. My routine when changing lenses at home first I have camera and lenses sitting on a grounded mat with my office door closed, no AC or Air on and my room air filter turned off. Then put it on the camera for the first time. I take new lenses and inspect and blow off the rear element with a rocket blower, wipe carefully around the mount with a microfibre cloth and clean the contacts with a lint free alcohol swab and then blow all off with a rocket blower. It was a piece of packing material from the lens The owner met me at the store that afternoon after we were done with classes he was teaching and he cleaned the sensor. Did some test shots that day and immediately had a big spot on my sensor. I had a new lens that a dealer sales person put on one of my bodies while I put another new lens on my wifes camera body. I have the camera face down and put a lens on and off several times to hopefully keep the particles out of the light box.Ĭlick to expand.Last point is a really good one. I still minimize lens changes outdoors as much as possible on one reason why I like to use two cameras in the field.Īnother consideration is a brand new lens which can leave particles inside the camera when first attached. The Z9 shutter is a good feature but I would not rely on it 100%. Eclipse cleaning solution costs about $12 and will last for years. V shaped swabs are now very inexpensive and available on Amazon. I use clear sky and shoot with manual focus at infinity and an aperture of f/16 to show any specs on the sensor. With digital cameras one should learn to clean the sensor which is not expensive or difficult. It would also cost me $30 in shipping and insurance costs in addition to what Nikon charges and the day after I got a camera back from them I could get a fresh spec on the sensor. If I was to send a camera to Nikon for cleaning I would have my cameras in transit more of the time than in my hands. Where did you read that Nikon does not want users to clean the sensors on their cameras? it made him a lot of $ doing sensor cleans and lens cleaning A push pull Canon I used years ago was "fondly" nicknamed the dust pump by an SPT Certified Camera Technician I have known for years. They did say it was most likely to happen with variable focal length lenses and especially with those that extend move the barrel in and out. One of them in the conversation, do not remember who, said that lenses with good weather sealing are more likely to vent the air back around the rear element into the camera body no they did not mention any particular lens. it displaces air and that "can" move dust in and out of the lens into the camera body depending on the lens. I am not a lens function expert of any kind so this information comes from sources with far more expertise than I have.Īs a tamron lens pro and a nikon engineer told me at symposium once anytime something moves in the lens ie. Dust can get on any sensor DSLR or Mirrorless even if you never change a lens albeit not changing lenses is highly unlikely.
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