From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Cleaning the sensor
- OK Rich, so we've talked about cleaning lenses. Obviously, an important thing you need to do and on a scale of one to ten of safety, if you follow a few smart rules, hey, easy to do, right? - Yeah. - But sometimes, as you mentioned, cameras can get dirty on the inside and what we're gonna talk about now is this idea of sensor cleaning or cleaning the inside part of the camera, the part around the lens mount and the inside closer to your sensor and again, just wanna put a disclaimer out there, that if this is not something that you're comfortable doing and have good technique doing, bring it to a professional. Have a camera store look at it. They do it all the time and they can help you out because, this is one area that you wanna make sure that you're doing it right and being precise because you could potentially damage your camera. - Alright, so, one of the first things you could do is try to determine if your sensor's dirty. A lot of times, I'll just take a still camera and frame…
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