Hi gang,
I have my Nikon D70 with just over 5,000 shots on it and I've never cleaned the sensor. I'm not seeing any artifacts in my shots but I'm wondering if there is any written or unwritten rule about cleaning the sensor after a certain amount of frames. I've heard anecdotal stories about cleaning it after 3000 shots, give or take a thousand, but haven't heard anything "official." I'm just looking for a consensus on the periodicity of cleaning, if any. Should it be done regardless of the absence of artifacts or would it be better to heed the addage that says, "If it isn't broke, don't fix it"?
My personal thought is that since it's still shooting fine, coupled with the fact that I'm extremely anal about where and when and how I change my lenses (I remove the lens with the camera pointed down so nothing falls into the camera, I won't open it in environments high in obvious airborne particulates (as seen by the naked eye anyway) and I do it very quickly to minimize the time it's open), I'm probably OK to keep shooting without cleaning it. Is my thinking flawed? I could go the other way with this as well and relate it to changing the oil in my Jeep every 3,000 miles even though it would work fine if I only did it every 6,000 miles (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and all that hooplah).
I look forward to your intellectually stimulating pontifications.
Good day!
Mike
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