How Do You Clean A Nikon D200 CCD?
Getting dust on the CCD sensors of your Nikon D200 can result in spots on your digital photographs. While Nikon advises against cleaning the CCD sensors yourself, the time wasted with shipping your camera away for cleaning and the shipping costs force many photographers to handle the job themselves. To clean your sensors, you will be going inside your camera’s working components, but if you follow some precautions, you can clean your CCD safely and effectively. Remove the lens from the camera body. The sensor will be visible inside the lens hole. Use a blower bulb to remove loose particles from the surface of the sensor. Blower bulbs create a burst of air by squeezing on the bulb to push the air inside through a tube. The process is gentler than using compressed air and doesn’t contain the chemicals that compressed air contains. If you remove your lens and do this regularly, this can prevent spots from forming on your sensor. Brush with a sensor brush to remove the particles that are l