Buy less, but buy better!
Buy less, but buy better!

Camera services

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We are proud to say that our sensor cleaning is one of the best available.

This service includes cleaning of dust accessed from the camera’s chamber. To do this, we use the most demanding methods with the highest success rate. We clean hundreds of cameras per year, all brands combined (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax, Leica, Hasselblad and Phase One).

In the vast majority of cases, we will return your sensor to you as clean as when it left the factory. On the other hand, the age of the case and the frequency of cleaning can influence our result. In all cases, we take photos before and after our cleaning in order to demonstrate, if necessary, the level of perfection of our intervention.

If you want to check your sensor

Here are the steps to follow if you want to check the cleanliness of your sensor. First, you must set your camera to the following parameters:

  • Set your camera to manual focus, on infinity

  • MANUAL MODE 1/4 of a second at f16 at ISO 100

Sensor Cleaning

Hold your camera upright, lens facing your computer screen, making sure you previously set your screen background to white and take a picture.

Then look at the image directly on the LCD screen of your device. Enlarge the image to the maximum value and go about it looking for specs, round spots, traces of sorts or even “hair”. Ideally, it's easier to look at your photo on the computer. If you do that, use photo shop, and once the file open simultaneously press "CTRL" + "SHIFT" + "L". This will put the contrast at extreme values never used in photography but it will show you every possible little spec, even ones you would never notice in your pictures.

If you see either of these, then you need a cleaning. We will be happy to do it for you!

Finally, in order to do a great job, we will need to change the ISO and the camera aperture to have the clearest image possible to see all the dust. Other setting may be disrupted during the operation, it's just like that. Also note that we may have to reset your device and all of its settings because some configurations are too specific for us to find out which setting prevents cleaning, if any. If this is a deal-braker for you, we may proceed to note your setting prior, but there is a 10$ surcharge for that.

lease: Completely strip your camera body (strap, fasteners) before bringing it to us with a 100% charged battery

SENSOR CLEANING

(We clean all sensors without any exceptions)

Service
PRICE
REGULAR
USUALLY HREE WORKING DAYS BETWEEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY
We'll call you if it's ready before.
$40
LESS THAN 4 HOURS
FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY
We'll call you as soon as it's ready.
$80
If it is necessary to spend more time and materials than normal in order to guarantee our quality of service...
$20 more will be charged
Sensor larger than 24x36mm
$80
CONSERVATION of all your SETTINGS, guaranteed.
$10
Check if the FIRMWARE is up to date
$5
Update FIRMWARE
$10
EXTERIOR superficial CLEANING of the case
$10

* * * Bring a charged battery * * *

NEVER BRING ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE CAMERA BODY AND THE 100% CHARGED BATTERY. WE DO NOT RETAIN ANYTHING ELSE.

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