Sensor cleaning

I had to do some intensive care for the broken SLR - there was a ton of junk on the CCD and I've finally got cleaning equipment. The camera came from the factory dirty as all hell.

It's kind of neat that you can get right in to the guts of the SLR's though - here's the camera body.

A zoom in to the CCD (the digital "film")A flat field - basically a flat, white source that lets you see all the crap on your camera - this was a picture of a piece of paper, defocued. There's crap everywhere.

I cleaned it off but missed the upper right corner.You can see it show up in the corner of this picture (mom's street).
And then, two more swabs later, a beautiful, clean CCD. Yay! Now I can finally take high-aperture pictures without a bunch of crap on the detector.