Cleaning RED V-Raptor VV sensor

[Brendan H]

Hey everyone,

I have a stubborn piece of dust on the sensor, normally I would just send the camera in to get the sensor cleaned but it's one little dust, that will not blow away. Anyone have any recommendations for sensor cleaning kits that are safe?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Phillipps]

I really like the Eyelead SCK-1 cleaning stick - seems to work very well and safely.

 

[Tim Bonython]

I use a very fine paint brush.

 

[James Sielaff]

Other than the fine soft paint brush, additionally there are sensor cleaning options you can buy for relatively cheaply. The sensor cleaning wands seem safer than some options.


I've found that if you clean too close to the frame edge of DSMC2, that a residue gets pulled out from the frame, and smeared across the sensor. i assume it is a type of adhesive. It cleans off, but on any camera with a fixed olpf, i'd be concerned about over cleaning and reducing olpf coatings? In any case, i'd caution about edge to edge cleaning, and only get as close as you need to.

but yeah, dislodging all dust and dust and being gentle with residue or stubborn stuff.


RF and other super short flange mount large surface area sensors are so probe to getting crap on them. One of the reasons I wish the Raptor series maintained a swappable system of some kind. The old school deep set cinema sensors were smaller and just more protected from accidental contact. They rarely needed cleaning compared to mirrorless 135 cameras.

 

[Matthew Hood]

I have found either the Arctic Butterfly which creates a static charge in the brush, or the gel stick to fix 95% of sensor dust. If there is some sort of adhesive property to the dust which is causing it to stick to the sensor glass, then maybe worth sending into RED and not risk damaging it further.