You haven't cleaned your DSLR Sensor?!? 

What is the FILTHIEST your camera gear has EVER been? Stories below!

Carving your name on your sensor is the easiest way to watermark your photos.

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Hi Peter, greetings from Scandinavia. I clean my sensor myself. You forget to mention that battery Must be not less than 50% because if mirror flips back during your cleaning it will be huge damage. Cheers

I like to use steel wool on mine

This is a waste of time Peter just take the lens off and put it in the dishwasher smh 🤦‍♂️

*Pauses video, opens camera, carves name, resumes video*

learn so much from you my friend! :)

Some things to add: 1. Make sure you check the web to see if other people have used the fluid you're using with good results. Some cleaning fluids will eat away some sensors so it's very important to use a fluid that others have successfully used with your camera model. 2. Use a fully charged battery. 3. Take test shots before to confirm it needs cleaning and after to see if you got it all. f/22 shots of a bright clear cloudless blue sky work best for me if available at a focal length between 18 and 50mm. In a pinch you can use multiple handheld shots of a clean white wall or white a4 sheet of paper. (Anything blotches or specs that move between shots is not on the sensor.) 4. Light pressure only when cleaning. No scrubbing. 5. You can clean the sensor with dust free pec pads wrapped around a flat piece of plastic that is the right size. When I've tried it's taken multiple (many, many) repetitions, so if you can get the proper pads from a reputable source at a reasonable price that's going to be better. 6. Don't freak out if you think you scratched your sensor. Unless you used a faulty swab, applied a lot of force, or used a fluid that's eaten away your sensor, chances are it's just streaking. Repeat the cleaning, and go easier on the fluid.

I bought extended service protection from Geek Squad and when inquiring about having it cleaned up, the lady at the desk literally said "I wouldn't trust any of these guys to do anything with your camera." So here I am, thanks Peter! Lol

"Opening up and exposing a sensor and touching the surface is literally like diffusing a bomb", Yes, Pete, that's so true...!

Thank you so much for making this video! My sensor is filthy and I've been having to clone out spots in every photo for months now. Didn't have to confidence to clean it myself until I stumbled upon this video in my notifications. It's been great watching your channel grow!

"You wanna expose your sensor as little as you can" Mirrorless shooters: *._.*

Hello. Thanks for your videos. I am a fan of yours from Morocco. I would like to say that you should have warned your viewers about battery levels before opening up their shutter and putting anything between its blades. You know, if the battery goes off with anything in there, the shutter is gone. Thanks.

This technique for cleaning the sensor was a life saver for me! I had a speck of dirt on it and I was able to safely remove it. Thank you!!!

i have been avoiding getting a dslr because i was not sure about cleaning the sensor. this video was the only one i trusted meaning i was able to get one. thanks pete!

I hope you enjoyed your time in my home country, Kenya

Instructions weren't clear. Ended up power washing my sensor.

The best explanation I've ever seen about the sensor cleaning!!! Thank you, Peter!

Great tip about the hot shower sensor cleaning prep. Excellent way to get all that dust down beforehand. Thanks, Pete makes total sense!

Benefit of being a broke photographer: only having 1 lens so you never have to expose the sensor to the outside world. Also I'd need a metric ton of eyedrops in the dessert thx genes.

Um... no, I haven't!! Do, I need to? YES, I DO!!! Thanks Peter for the amazing videos. :)

LOVE the channel my man! keep on grinding to 2mil while helping every one of your viewers up their editing skills!

Peter makes everything more pleasant to watch, hands down! Awesome video as always! :D

I don't know why I'm not getting more notifications from your channel. I subscribed and I clicked on the bell icon and stuff and still don't get any notification.

Mine has never been too filthy, maybe I haven't been to enough exciting/exotic places.. Next on my Bucket List: get my camera gear as dirty as possible. Lol

Started watching this video this morning right before leaving work and I went on a test shoot (testing the accuracy of lightspectrum pro app) and noticed a hair on my sensor... YOU JINXED ME!!!!!

Thank you very much. I have had this lovely piece of lint in all of my photos for the past 12 years and have never had the courage to lock up the mirror to clean off the sensor. So I would just photoshop it out of all my images. And I wasn't going to pay someone to do such a simple job either. So over the last 2 months I have been slowly buying up swabs, spray, microfibre cloths and air blower as cheap as could of eBay and FINALLY cleaned my sensor. It worked perfectly and only cost me about $5 in bits and pieces. After seeing that little fluffy line of lint for all those years, I now kind of miss it.

You should always blow before whipping! Otherwise you could be scratching the lens with potential pieces of sand on the lens, or stuff like that! Best wishes for your lenses further on! 😆

bwhats up to you too Pete.

Thanks for the help Peter. I’m new to making videos and right now they’re not that great, but I’m starting to see a change because I’ve been watching your videos.

Pete! Just downloaded the presets and LOVE them. You have been THE biggest influence on me as a photographer, both improving my skill and fostering creativity and passion. THANK YOU!! One tiny complaint: The rocket blower you linked to on your cleaning video is different than the one you actually used.... and it's cheap junk. Other amazon reviews testify exactly what happened with mine: broke immediately with first use. I wanted to support you and use your affiliate link, but had to return it and buy the name brand blower. Hope this reaches you and helps you and your fans! (Happy to be one of them) 🙌🏼😁

Just a note to others, you should only open the sensor with a full/near full battery as it eats power and for sure you dont want the mirror flipping back down mid way through cleaning due to power loss!

Read the title: Overwhelming anxiety flowed through my veins..

Thanks for this visit as your cleaning the sensor video was the first one I saw and not many people talk about cleaning the sensor on the DSLR camera.

Peter, everyday on your channel is a learning experience. 🙏

representing Zimbabwe..much love bro

My camera is filthy only when I take dirty photos...

Thanks, Peter for this video. Those dark spots can reek havoc on photos. I know that can be cleared up in post, but when you're on a roll capturing, that can be torturous! Those swabs at gold, so consider me signed up & sold on those, because those are perfect for the sensor. Thanks once again!

Awesome video! Cleaned my sensor today with these steps and everything looks and works so much cleaner!

Hey Pete, about the steam room method, won't the humidity in the air be a problem itself for the sensor? Won't the sensor get little water particles on it if it's open at the time?

I want that 5d mark iv❤️

Now this is some hardcore dedication. Great video!

Wow this is my first video I liked! So cool to go back on your likes vids! 5 years later and still watching every video as they come out!!!

"carving your name in it" damn, i almost spit my coffee

Your channel is the best channel i found for dslr tips and tricks ! There are a lot of channels out there in youtube but your presentation is just so perfect that after watching a video i just feel like : go get the equipments and jsut strat off what i watched ! But after some moment i realize that i dont have a dslr ! 😂😅 Thanks to cris ramsay for showing your channel . I've been fillowing you for like 1 and a half years and wanted to say theese words !though its a lil odd to sound but I you wanted to know bout the feelings i got for you ! Okhay thats enough no one is reading thisnhuge comment 😂✌

Fantastic idea:running the hot water in the shower for 5 minutes!! My wife smokes a LOT - I know there are teeny little strands of crappola that float around the room 24/7. I _NEED_ a "clean" room to do this. I know I've got "spots" on my sensor from foolishly flipping the mirror up because I wanted to see the sensor. Very grateful for the video. Love your work!!

this is by far the best gear cleaning video i've ever seen bro!

don't you get condensation into your camera if you clean it in a steaming hot room?

Now i got to buy a DSLR to use this :) Thanks for great sharing again , just love Your material. Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter

Hi Peter and CONGRATULATIONS for hitting the 1M subscribers! I really enjoy every videos you make, it's really inspiring and your positivity makes me go forward! Because of you i recently started to make videos and photos, so i got the Canon EOS 200D and i think it's the best purchase i made in 2017 so far! Keep the good work and i hope i'll see you in an other video soon! Take care, from FRANCE!

Peter thank you for your time and making these videos for all of us climbing up. You rock my friend! Hopefully I can meet you at some point. Come to Las Vegas after the world reopens. Cheers!

I lick it clean, tasting my hard work is just MMmMMM

11:13 He put a camera in a camera? :O

Thank you for showing me the manual clean and flip up with the wrench screen. That helps me a lot. Cheers.

Thanks for the video. I will clean my camera tomorrow. Happy New Year!

I wouldn't be recommending to clean sensitive electronic gear in a steamy bathroom...... Imagine all the moisture that will get inside that body, all over the sensor and throughout the internal components.

I clean sensors at my work, what a lot of people fail to realize is you're not actually cleaning the sensor, you're cleaning the IR filter which is a piece of glass, you can be surprisingly rough with them to get grub off it and it will be fine (the 1DX MK II, A7R MK II and some other cameras have a coating on the glass inside, DO NOT USE CONVENTIONAL CLEANING METHODS ON THESE CAMERAS)

Your energy is awesome, dude. These videos are so helpful. Thank you!

TIL clean room technique (shower) to drop air particles facilitating a better environment to clean camera sensors. Thank you very much for this seemingly innocuous but very valuable tip Peter! 😁

I clean mine with some dishwashing liquid and a scrubber :)

Would you still recommend cleaning it even though the camera cleans itself

The steam room trick really works. Also really useful when applying screen protectors and avoiding airbubbles and dust.

Thank you peter. I always love your personality and your descriptions / mindframe! Means so much to me.

Thanks for making me even more scared to clean my own sensors!! Great video, though!

Notification squad. Where are you guys?

Dude,,,,,,,I love your videos!! One of very view vloggers whose videos I watch all the way through.

Dude thanks so much man! Didn’t know my canon 60d had the option in the menu to clean out the sensor itself. I had 3 visible spots showing on my camera for months and I procrastinated trying to clean it. I even used the air compressor on my sensor when I wasn’t suppose to. After I followed your instructions my camera is clean and ready to shoot some more

Opening your gear in a steamy moisture laden room will only lock moisture inside your gear so fungus will grow inside your camera. I'll put my faith into spot removal in LightRoom

You should probably upload this video week ago 😅

Almost two MILLIONS. YOU ARE A BEAST PETER!

Cool, there are tons of videos about sensor cleaning explaining wrong procedures but this is very good, I would probably add a disclaimer which says that you have to use each side of the swab only one time but the procedure you explained is actually very good!

#TMT Why to shoot in RAW format?

9:25 save your self 10 minutes of talking lol

Awesome! Needed this for sure. Thanks man! Watching your videos has got me back into shooting photos again.

Thanks Peter! I've barely used my 80D but it's handy to know what to do in the future! Keep up the great work buddy!

Damn i remember when he had like 120k

i think sony users have to clean more often.

This was extremely helpful, I didn't know any of this stuff. Thank you!

I'm no photographer nor cinematographer but really love your channer and expertise. Keep it up man! great job! i wish i could afford a pro-camera to learn how to create all those great videos you do. thanks for your time!

Now i want to stare at that sensor for no reason ...tho my camera is new

I don't need to clean my sensor anymore:/ I crushed my cam and need a new Body😑

I appreciate that you posted this video. Thanks so much for sharing. I know someone that cleaned his own sensor and ruined it and had to buy another camera. I thought it was more complicated than it is. Glad I got to see the inside of it. Not sure I'd clean my own sensor (I live right near a Nikon service center). But someday I may be in a pinch and may have to. I can't be away from my camera in wedding season so I may need to in the future.

Well made Peter, very practically explained!

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what's up everybody?!!

I have had a dirty censor for a LONG time. I always clone stamp the marks out. Definitely liked this video.

Excellent video! I have microbiology in my background so I get it all exactly (The hairs stand up on the back of my neck if people leave the lid off the mayo!). I have cleaned mine maybe twice and only after a lot of YT research. My 'clean room' was a tent on the living room table wetted all over inside with I forget what -maybe just water). I made my own swab with lens tissue rubber banded onto a tiny rubber baking bowl scapper. Isopropanol kindly supplied by my former place of employment (bioscience lab in my college). And I bought a huge magnifying class. You nailed it when you said it was like defusing a bomb! For lens cleaning (at leat for microscopes) I always taught students that you blow first so there is less chance of polishing a piece of grit as you clean. Great video thanks. Love your stuff!

I use a nail brush... Just kidding I don’t even have a camera YET

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! Way too scary! I once had some dried dirt on my sensor so used a flat head screwdriver to scrape it off! Never again!

Genius ideas my man! I love the energy by the way. Cheers bud!

I'm new here , and as soon as I saw his video , I instant subscribed , I really like him , he's straight to the point and everything point he say is really good . This channel really do help me with my photography skills

6:06 Clean your lense with the dirt you brought from Africa.

who else is here before 1K

This video is back 2 years ago. And now almost 4 Million :) Man, Pete, I will love to see that number turning into 4M :)

Wow this is such a good channel. I really needed this

Hey Peter! Your instructional videos are great but I think we have to be exceptionally careful when dealing with the camera sensor. I believe firmly that one should NEVER touch our sensors unless we're perfectly qualified to do so. If we do have to clean the sensor, I agree that we should only use swabs and proper sensor cleaning liquids. Nothing else. However, I do disagree with a few of the actions here... 1. When you put the swab into the sensor you kinda used a bit of force to press down on the sensor and clean it. I really don't think you should do that as even though you're pressing on the anti-aliasing filter, because of the weight you're putting on something so fragile, you could cause the coating of surface of the sensor to become quite uneven. Instead, you could consider using less force to wipe across the sensor's surface. 2. Do NOT use the same swab to wipe across the sensor a second time! That is the BIGGEST mistake that someone could ever do while cleaning their sensor. This is because, the first time your swab goes across it picks up dust, particles or dirt. By reintroducing that swab onto your sensor, not only could you leave some residue behind from what it picked up before, but the worst that could happen is that the swab drags those particles across the sensor... and you end up with a scratched surface. I think we should all be careful with our sensors and whenever possible try our dearest best to not touch it. It is SUPER expensive to replace a sensor/fix the surface and I don't think any of us would want to be in that position.

So......spray cleaning solution on the cloth and wipe the front element of my lens THEN blow it off with a rocket blower. Got it, Next take my DSLR into a hot steamy bathroom and open it up exposing the cool sensor to hot super humid air. Got it! Can I try all this out on your gear 1st? You know, just to see how it turns out.

This video was nerve racking watching, totally a much needed video for me. Shout out to Peter for the bathroom steam weighting dust down, Most Impressive

Pete! BIG like to you! Every PM video is like a little heaven for me. Nothing matters, nothing is wrong, I just enjoy your content. Your ART. Every piece of it!😏