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Sensor cleaning service - 05-04-2007, 01:14 PM


From another forum, one member told that Ritz camera (yea, been there once, know what kind of store that is), now offers "sensor cleaning service".

Sixty five US dollars. In MN.

Am I the only one who thinks that it's ridiculous?
I clean my sensors myself, it takes - three minutes.
So, 1300$ per hour that Ritz charges - left me speechless.

Ridiculous, telling you, whole world goes nuts
Where those suckers think they are???

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05-04-2007, 01:36 PM


It might be high for liability purposes.

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05-04-2007, 02:03 PM


Ritz a.k.a. Wolf Camera, at least here at the "superstore" in Dallas doesn't even sell sensor cleaning supplies due to liability reasons. Well, that's what the manager told me, anyhow. Had to drive all the way to Competitive to get the stuff.

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I recently took my camera, a 1DsMII, to Professional Camera Repair on Richmond in Houston. Cost $92.01 after tax. I think it took them about 1.5hrs to clean it. As soon as they got it he started right in on it and I noticed he was looking at it through a big lighted magnifying glass. They done a good thorough job cleaning it and they clean the focusing screen and mirror cage as well.

I have a bit of a problem cleaning sensors. Seems like when I clean one spot off another one appears. I guess I need one of those big lighted mirrors.

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Still, Mercedes charges 200$/hour, and they work on 100K cars, not cleaning piece of glass on sub 1K cameras.
Anyone wants to open up camera cleaning place with me? LOL

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05-04-2007, 02:10 PM


90 bucks for complete clean up seems reasonable. Charging 65 for sensor cleaning on consumer cameras is stealing.
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05-04-2007, 02:14 PM


I'd love to know how many "takers" they have. Heck, I think I'll open a sensor cleaning service. Just think. If the business was good and I could really keep busy, I could retire after a couple of months or so.

40 hours x 60 minutes / hour x 1 cleaning / three minutes x $65/ cleaning = $885,300 per week.

And why three minutes? It takes me about 20 seconds. I can retire in a week.

Turn on the camera. Click the menu button. Scroll to Sensor Clean. Hear mirror lock up. Take off the lens. Uncap my sensor cleaning LensPen. Swab it on the sensor for 3 or 4 seconds. Put the lens back on. Turn the camera off. Done.

Every once in a while I have to go through it again, but not usually. So, if you have to do it twice and if you add the time to take the follow up photo and look at it to make sure you got everything, then it might take three whole minutes.

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