- Here's a link where someone ran an experiment where he put dust on the sensors of several cameras (of different brands) and tested how much remained after running the camera's self-cleaning function many times. The results, as I recall, indicated that no brand was very effective at self-cleaning.
In 2007, Hungarian photographer Róbert Irházy documented his test (Original article (in Hungarian); Internet Archive copy of English version) where he put dust on the sensors of several cameras (of different brands) and tested how much remained after running the camera's self-cleaning function many times. The results, as I recall, indicated that no brand was very effective at self-cleaning.
- I'm not exactly sure, but I believe the idea is largely to prevent dust from sticking to the sensor rather than to remove it from the camera itself.
I'm not exactly sure, but I believe the idea is largely to prevent dust from sticking to the sensor rather than to remove it from the camera itself.
