How often are you cleaning your sensor?

1 year 5 months ago #746064 by Nathan D
I've gotten to the point where I've been cleaning my sensor each month.  Is there such thing as cleaning it to much?  I'd like to hear from you all on frequency that you are cleaning your sensors?  


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1 year 5 months ago #746090 by CharleyL
I'm not at all a fan of sensor cleaning. It's too easy to damage the surface of the sensor. I do clean my lenses often, never change lenses in the wind, and always keep the lens caps on when not actually shooting. The lenses do get dirty, especially the end facing what you are shooting. It happens ! Being very careful about exposing the rear of the lens and the sensor should almost eliminate the need to clean them manually. The sensor in my cameras get cleaned automatically when I power off the cameras, don't yours ? If anything ever happened to one of my camera sensors that required cleaning, other than automatically, I would be sending or taking the camera to a professional camera service shop. I would never do it myself. Lenses, yes. Sensor, never.

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1 year 5 months ago #746102 by TCav
Clean the sensor when it needs it, and not before.


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1 year 5 months ago #746107 by Shadowfixer1
You don't actually clean the sensor. You clean the glass filter in front of the sensor. Back in the day I had to clean my Fuji S2 Pro and my Nikon D200. I've had Olympus gear since 2014. Three different cameras and none have needed cleaning. Whatever they do or however they do it, it's amazing.
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1 year 5 months ago #746108 by Razky
Bought a DSLR in 2006, another in 2014 - they get pretty regular use, and neither has required cleaning.


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1 year 5 months ago #746205 by Rick Larin
Just as needed, so if I find crud on my photos, I’ll clean my sensor then.  


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1 year 4 months ago #746313 by Happy Hour
When I have dots in my photos!  


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1 year 4 months ago #746364 by Hassner
Same, only when I pick up spots. 


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1 year 4 months ago #746409 by Ian Stone
Dang, only when it needs it.  Last year I had a spot in all my photos for nearly 2 months before I finally cleaned the sensor!  Now that was a little extra work to remove the spot in photos.  Just sharing where that was in priority for me. 


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1 year 4 months ago #746410 by Razky
Same as with a lens - better to keep it clean than to keep cleaning it.


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1 year 4 months ago #746497 by Sassy Girl
Just had mine cleaned 2 days ago!  But last time before that was OMG, nearly a year ago. 


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1 year 4 months ago #746590 by Pete Franko
Something like the sensor IMHO, only needs to be cleaned when needed.  If you go cleaning your sensor every month for example, that's just unnecessary risk of scratching your sensor.  


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1 year 4 months ago #746693 by Justin
+1  and I have someone else do it as well

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1 year 4 months ago #746748 by Prago
Only as needed 

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1 year 4 months ago #746850 by Kenta
OMG, not as much as I should.  I’ll usually get my camera professionally cleaned once a year. 


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