Today, I attended the Sensor Cleaning workshop organised by EOS Magazine. I’ve been using a blower to get rid of dust, but compared to my 18 month old 400D, the New 40D was absolutely FILTHY.

This took place at the EOS Magazine HQ at Tackley in Oxfordshire, which is an absolutely beautiful Cotswold village with plenty to photograph in the immediate vicinity (I wish I worked here).

It turned out that this was actually mostly a seminar on how to clean your sensor, but it did a god job of reassuring me that the sensor, whilst fragile, isn’t THAT fragile. I came away having purchased a cleaning kit consisting of sensor brush, blower, and most importantly sensor swabs. When I got home, I used the brush, which didn’t remove all that much, as most of the muck on my sensor was grease, so the sensor swabs came out, and two swabs later, the sensor is significantly cleaner.

Its still not perfect, with a couple of persistant smears, but its one hell of an improvement on what it was.

If another of these demos is run, I’d wholeheartedly recommend it.