DSLR Sensor Cleaning (Lazy Guide) "Hot Pixel"

in the spirit of lazy this blog post will be very lazily done*


To clean your DSLR sensor WITHOUT touching, risking or damaging your sensor:
*don't take off your camera lens*

1: Set your camera to Manual Mode

2: Go to the options (middle yellow wrench thingy on Canon DSLR's)

3: Select "Sensor Cleaning" (your camera will open it's sensor where you could if you wanted to, put a sensor cleaning device inside and clean it, however if you screw up, you may potentially render the camera completely useless... )

4: after about a minute to 2 minutes turn your camera off

5: Take a blank picture and check it for hot pixels and other dirt... if the picture looks cleaner then your sensor is clean and there is no need to take it to a camera specialist.

this is a picture taken with the lens cap on... LOOKS perfectly black right?

this is the EXACT same picture as the one above, only slightly zoomed in to reveal that even though the picture looks black, there's still plenty of dirt and dust and all sorts of imperfections on the sensor... (just proves how incredibly sharp and sophisticated camera's these days are)

and that one bright white dot in the center is called a "hot pixel" usually hot pixels aren't a problem and are virtually invisible unless you shoot in low light... where they can often become distracting and frustrating... They can always be colored over but if you shoot video, its a little harder to cover it up...

This picture below is the exact same zoomed in selection as the above picture, only taken AFTER I did the above procedure to clean my sensor... notice the hot pixel has vanished :)

there is still a little bit of dots and noise... but that can't be helped, and after a little touching up all that stuff can be fixed up! (only a truly picky photographer would gripe about something so small as a little bit of noise)

Incredible above pictures taken by Andrew Taraba, please no stealing?