Dirty Lenses

[Brent]

I have a Canon 20D. During the Sayer Fire it looks like I got dirt/ash
inside the lens putting spots on some of the pictures I taken since
then. I know it is obvious what I should do, but I wanted to see if
there is something else I can do to remove the dirt from insdie the
lens without sending them in to Canon. Does anyone else know or uses
another place that does a good job without costing a fortune to clean
lens?

[WichitaFire.org]

What kind of lens is it?

[Brent Bollar]

Its a Canon 18mm-55mm and a 70mm-300mm. The 18mm-55mm looks to be the worse, but both are in need of some cleaning.

 

Brent

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From: WichitaFire.org <athom...@hotmail.com>
To: Fireground Action Photography <Fireg...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:21:58 AM
Subject: [Fireground Action Photography] Re: Dirty Lenses

[Andy Thomas]

I have a 17-55 2.8 IS and I had really bad dust inside of it, now for
what I did to fix it.....if you are dead set on having it cleaned do
not read further as it may induce vomiting......I took an eye glass
repair kit and used that screw driver and disassembled the screws
removing the glass furthest away from the camera. thus exposing the
dust, using a puffer I blew it out 3 times or so and re-assembled.
THIS IS A BIG NO NO and I am not telling you to do such a thing, I am
just saying that I did it and it worked great and I have had 0 dust
since, I have also been sprayed with water and been inside smoke and
have had 0 leaks. I'm sorry if I made anyone sick to their stomach..

On Dec 22, 11:28 am, Brent Bollar <brentb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Its a Canon 18mm-55mm and a 70mm-300mm. The 18mm-55mm looks to be the worse, but both are in need of some cleaning.
>
>  Brent
>
> ________________________________

> From: WichitaFire.org <athomas5...@hotmail.com>

[ro...@firepictures.com]

Brent:

If there are spots appearing on your pictures after down loading them, I
think you might have gotten your sensor dirty, It's on the sensor in the
camera not in the lens. You can buy a sensor scope & cleaning tools to do
it yourself,the one I bought can be found on the podcast page from Amazon,
it's made by Delkin. If you choose there are several camera stores that
clean them for a couple of hundred bucks also. Let me know if you want
together and try mine fist for only a couple of dollars..

Ross