My sensor is clean!

A couple weekends ago, a careless lens change atop the roof of a five-story parking garage, I managed to get dust on my DSLR's sensor. I noticed in the images of Mount Diablo I took there a bunch of spots in the sky. It was the dreaded sensor dust. I asked around and researched, and came upon the website of Copper Hill Images. They have two sensor cleaning kits: wet and dry. I wanted to cover my bases, so I ordered both. The kit arrived this past week, so I started work this morning.

I first used the blower to blow on my sensor. It just moved the dust around. So I next used the SensorSweep, a dry brush. On my first pass, I moved all the dust to the edges. On my second, I had only two spots on an edge. On my third pass, it was clean. I'm so happy! I'll be taking lots of pictures once again.

The moral of this story is twofold: 1) get out of the wind when changing lenses; ,and 2) be prepared to clean your sensor.