{"id":1427,"date":"2018-10-15T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:07:40","slug":"spring-cleaning-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/spring-cleaning-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Cleaning? In October?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well yes &#8211; from time to time it&rsquo;s a good idea to clean the muck off the sensor of your camera\/s, and as the Circus Festival starts in 5 days time&#8230;.I thought it best to be prepared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181013_145401s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181013_145401s-1024x927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181013_145401s.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181013_145401s-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181013_145401s-768x695.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I prefer the \u00ab\u00a0wet\u00a0\u00bb method of sensor cleaning &#8211; a couple of drops of cleaning fluid on the swab and a couple of gentle passes on the sensor.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to check if the cleaning has got rid of all the muck is to take a photograph with your widest wide angle lens &#8211; in my case, I used my 14mm, stopped down to it&rsquo;s minimum &#8211; f\/22. Take a photo of the sky or a bright, even surface &#8211; much easier to see the blobs of muck. Using the minimum aperture means that the natural &lsquo;diffraction&rsquo; which occurs at very small apertures will mean that the dust spots really stand out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cleaning-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cleaning-1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cleaning-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cleaning-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Cleaning-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an example before the cleaning process. The dark spots are tiny pieces of dust. It saves a lot of post treatment to remove this rubbish before making pictures! (<em>Click on the image to enlarge it<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well yes &#8211; from time to time it&rsquo;s a good idea to clean the muck off the sensor of your camera\/s, and as the Circus Festival starts in 5 days time&#8230;.I thought it best to be prepared. I prefer the \u00ab\u00a0wet\u00a0\u00bb method of sensor cleaning &#8211; a couple of drops of cleaning fluid on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/spring-cleaning-in-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Spring Cleaning? In October?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}