Do you ever have your camera professionally cleaned?
effron wrote: I clean my sensors, but every now and then I will send a camera to Nikon for CLA. Usually get back a new like camera......
Just don't send with a battery, or anything they can lose, because they WILL lose it.
I get mine cleaned at an authorized nikon repair shop (they're authorized to do canon as well) at a local place.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Not that I can't clean my own camera ( I have a couple of times) he's just better at it. 
photobod wrote: I clean my own after a while it becomes second nature a bit like riding a bike, I dont see the point in paying out money for something you can learn to do yourself.
I am a penny pincher I can pay but I will do it myself if I am able changed the oil and thermostat in my car and did a service on it and the jeep this week saved enough money that my parts could be consider free RedNeck Photos
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