Step by Step DSLR Camera Body and Lenses Cleaning

NOTE: Your lenses are made of glasses where your photos’ sharpness and clarity depend. Cleaning them is definitely necessary.

1.             Start cleaning outside. Use microfiber cloth to clean the camera body exterior and q tips to clean all deep-seated dirt or dust.

2.             Use soft lens cleaning cloth on the front glass of the lens. IMPORTANT: Always lock the mount cap on the lens as protection against unwanted elements.

3.             Blow dirt and dust off your camera body’s crevices with an air blower.

4.             Add a small amount of cleaning fluid to the lens cloth and apply it on the glass and then the exterior of the lens and camera body.

5.             Remove the lens mount from the body to clean the digital sensor of the camera.

6.             Place the camera to sensor cleaning mode and then air-blow the defensive filtering element of the digital sensor. IMPORTANT: Do not touch the filter.

7.             Sweep the surface in one direction with a clean brush—using the right size of cleaning swab, take two drops of cleaning solution and sweep across the filtering element’s surface. IMPORTANT: Make sure the power is on at all times. If the camera turns off, the sensor curtain will shut off, and cause irreversible damage.

8.             Remount the lens to the camera body and take another photo to check if spots and blemishes were removed.