How Much To Get Camera Lens Cleaned

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I know there is a lot of give-and-take around cleaning to remove dust on the
sensor, just I haven't been able to find a general estimate on how much that
would toll. I am getting ready to go on large trip and would love take the sensor
every bit perfect as I tin become information technology. Also I would honey go my lens cleaned, which I see
a little bit of dust in. But I just have no idea what they charge for this
service.
FYI: I accept a D80.

Thanks
On which part of the world are y'all located?
Hither in NY the sensor cleaning run about $45 but lens is a hole different game, for my feel depending on what lens is going to price y'all $85 (if yous are lucky) and UP.
PS.
a little dust on your lens information technology won't touch the picture quality at all.
If you only have a bit of dust within the lens, y'all are better off not having it professionally cleaned, which involves taking information technology apart and they may or may not be able to put it dorsum together perfectly.
One trick you tin effort is to use a vacuum cleaner to suck the grit out through the back opening for the discontinuity lever.
For DSLR sensors, you are improve off learning how to clean that yourself. Stores typically charge The states$xl or and so in the Us.
I hold with Juanjo. But would also like to add that many photographers these days are cleaning their ain digital camera sensors. I have been doing it for years and take had no problem.
Here's a link to a website that gives pretty good instructions on how to clean the sensor yourself. http://www.photosafari.com/Articles/CleaningWithASensorKlear.asp
Learn to clean your sensor yourself. If there is, on the first solar day of your big trip, again dust on your sensor you can clean information technology again. Sometimes I accept to make clean three times a calendar week and sometimes it takes two or more months between cleanings.
Cost was effectually $100 well-nigh two years agone to get one cleaned around here at a local repair shop. And so a mean solar day later after such cleaning the sensor was muddy again. Later on that I just started cleaning information technology myself. I use VisibleDust products, swabs + solution, (http://www.visibledust.com/) simply there is a whole market out at that place of other good cleaners. Up front end information technology might cost $l-100 merely you tin can get well-nigh ten-20+ cleanings with it. It's as unproblematic as wetting the swab, flipping the mirror, i swipe of the sensor, allow to dry, and flip mirror down. Bring your cleaning stuff with you lot on your big trip.
Another very piece of cake sensor cleaning tool is the SensorKlear pen. It costs between $10 and $twenty depending on where you purchase it, is skillful for 50 cleanings, and has replaced, for me, moisture cleaning of the sensor. In that location will likely be a few spots that the SensorKlear will not remove, just and then far it is most on par with wet cleaning and has been trouble-free.
The CLA of a camera (e.m., Nikon SLR or Hasselblad) will cost $100 to $200 past the manufacturer in the Us. It's usually best to accept any foam seals replaced, which will run the cost to the higher side.
Use an authorized service center. Don't bother with a local camera shop, the work is SLOW and quality spotty.

As Chung says, get the proper tools and acquire to clean the sensor yourself. I use the Copperhill method with Eclipse Fluid and PEC pads (q.5., Calumet) for tough cases. I have a Sensor Brush kit with an electric spinner (to clean and charge the brushes), which is easy to employ in the field and uses no flammable solvents (which can't exist taken or checked on an airplane). I have not had to resort to the fluid method in the twelvemonth I've had the brush kit.

Keep your camera handbag clean (a good vacuuming to remove dust and lint), and castor the rear of each lens make clean (and the caps) from fourth dimension to time. With good housekeeping, y'all but demand to make clean the sensor every iii months or and then.

Don't worry about irresolute lenses. Mineral dust, every bit blown well-nigh outside, is not that much a trouble. The nearly problematic "dust" is really lint from clothing, carpets and camera numberless.
Edward,
It's not really a proficient thought to tell someone that whatsoever service center other than the
manufacturer does poor quality work. In many cases you can become better work done for less
at a local camera repair shop than you tin sending it off to Nikon in Pasadena.

I worked for a local camera repair store for a couple years and can attest to at least the
quality of work done there by the sole proprietor. He likewise had a friend who worked at
Nikon and had some stories to tell about the work they did in that location, like taking a camera
completely apart and then deeming it beyond repair, and not bothering to put it dorsum
together before sending it back to the client!!

Certainly as for cleaning the sensor, if one feels they can practise it without dissentious information technology, go
ahead. But recollect, your local repair shop is nearly likely owned by a guy who went to
school and worked his butt off doing good repair work for people and congenital his reputation
that way. At that place are good repair shops and at that place are bad ones. Not all of them are bad.
Oop, don't take away Dave's dejeuner.
Recently my daughter had to ship her D50 with fungus on the sensor to the Nikon authorized dealer at Mumbai. It transpired that the fungus was on the bottom side of the low pass filter only non on the CCD panel. So the sensor filter was removed, cleaned and fitted back once more. Total charge Rs. 3000 or roughly 75 USD. They have washed a expert task and have told that fungus volition not grow again. Let us come across. This was a beginning for them here is the reference photograph.
Interesting. You would think there would exist a seal betwixt the CCD and the filter to prevent moisture and fungus from getting in there. Otherwise, a wet sensor cleaning could create a similar trouble of liquid staining the bottom of the filter. I wonder if the camera was defective out of the mill.
Wow, Ajay, that is some mucus! It looks well-nigh similar a colony of barnacles! ;<))