Screw up your Courage Clean your Sensor!

Today I undertook the task of cleaning the sensor on my Nikon D7000 for the first time and am very pleased with the results. I had an accumulation of crud all over the sensor.

(Note to sell avoid changing lenses in the rain ..... never mind)

I used the sensor swab kit from Photographic Solutions and found their kit to be a cost effective way to clean my camera.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to working on my camera. I took apart the AP/Kodak NC2000e press camera more times than I can remember to replace batteries and fix connections.

It's just when it's my personal camera and if I mess it up I need to fix it I think twice before facing a sensor replacement bill. One things I miss about not being in the photojournalist world anymore were the free annual clean and checks by Nikon. I could have sent it off to a camera service department to have it cleaned but that would cost more than the kit I ordered off of Amazon.