Sensor cleaning question

[William]

A bit off topic. Before I leave home I put the lens on that I think I will use most for the outing, In a sterile place.

here is what I do. I take the cap off the lens that is going on the camera but I always blow around the cap before removing it.
I then place the lens upright on a clean surface, then I blow around the camera body and lens before un-attatching, I then put the unattached lens upright on the clean surface and then put the clean cap on the other lens I always use the same back cap when swapping lenses and not one from the bottom of my bag. Make sense

Should be pretty right doing it that way Dave , In the mornings , I always swap between 3 lenses , I have the back of my Hatchback set like a work bench for Lens swapping , I dont worry about giving it all a puff, Just swap them quickly , Make sure you turn the Camera off before you change lenses

[achee]

Well, the 4 swabs were part of a 'kit' which also had 1ml of fluid... but that hardly seems to count! So... yep, I guess I overpaid! Ok, I'll use my last two swabs trying to finish off this clean, then get the pecpads and spatula thingy, so I can wipe it again and again and again and not feel so bad!

[Duane Pipe]

Thanks for the reply Arthure and Bill.

Another scenario... I worked as a sandblaster for a few months before a promotion, It was a cabinet type with gloves.
After a while the gloves would get holes in them and the air passing over my bear fingers would create static and Man I would get some big zaps, so what would be the affect of blowing air over the sensor! I doubt that the volume of air from what we use would create static like that

[William]

When I saw , Worked as a Sandblaster, I thought , No you would'nt , We used to use little ones called Mighty mites for small jobs , Dunno about cleaning a sensor though, Rather use a Tooth brush and Bon-Ami , Hey!! dont try that I'm only joking , In answer to you Re: Static . I'd think you would be safe Dave

[Papou]

I have purchased a couple of artists brushes from the loacal art gallery aprox the size of the sensor of my K10D(havent touched the 5D11 as yet) and what i normaly do is blow a fair whack of comp air over the brush as its said to cause static elec of the hair particles which help pick up some dust off the sensor as i brush across it first.
I then swab across the sensor with homemade swabs(plastic) with lint free material and iso propalene and so far had no issues removing dust from the K10D.
Mindya i did make one hellova mess with the Pentax isTds sensor when i cleaned it with older fluid that was left stand for some time and it DID leave oil streaks across the sensor till i got to it with fresh fluid.
Bit of a sweat job that was too
Like previousely said , so long as you use a tadof common sence its hard to damage that sensor and they are quite hardy from most reports ive read to date.

[Duane Pipe]

That sounds like a good idea using a charged brush

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Thank for the reply's Arthur and Bill. I have treated the 7d better than myself but there is still a 4mm long tissue type fiber inside one of my lenses.