NAB STUFF

@dnavarrojr is a lucky man ..... I remember a previous post from Globescope who bought a new GH4 for a trip and was unable to use it because of a dust particle that stuck to the sensor. Luckily in his post if I remember correctly he had an AX100 as backup.

Almost every new big sensor camera especially the 4K sensors that heat up are dust magnets.C100 is the same as GH4 if not worse.

If you are spending a lot of time outdoors and changing lenses, the only way to make things a bit better is to hold the camera with the mount facing the ground and putting on caps before changing the lenses,so no interchanging lenses with the sensor exposed.Also most of the times it's the dust in the caps that fall in the body and eventually get sucked by the sensor so it's propably best to clean them with brush and air pressure regularly.

I still haven't used swabs or visibledust brushes in my C100,like in my dslr's,i only blow air and pray to every known and unknown entity of the universe and beyond.

I'm used with wet swabs for 7 years now, with all cameras that I shot in the past or now (Nikon D700, Nikon D800, Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 1DC). For time lapse it is really mandatory to have no dust on the image sequence, if you do not go crazy in post production ;). In all this time I went to the service only one time to clean the sensor. After that moment I did the job, even I am a NPS and CPS customer (with some yearly free services).

I have a dream!

It is time for the camera manufacturer to develope a feature to close the camera before changing your lense. Don't forget your lens has also dust. Flying pollen is another killer for censor. It is the manufacturer's responsibility to make camera dust-free for users. :)
Well, shop which clean censor makes lot of money and they create jobs as well. ;)

I suppose it's time to order another cleaning kit then! Thanks for all the comments guys.

what cleaning kit are ya'll ordering?

Probably Dust Aid, which I used before and seemed alright.

I use the following sensor swabs on my GH3 and GH4. They work well for me. I just got some stubborn spots off my GH3's sensor with one of these swabs yesterday.

http://bit.ly/MFT-Sensor-Swabs

For more thorough cleaning, I've used the same product moistened with Eclipse Cleaning Solution. But I try not to get my sensor wet unless I really have to.

If you're uneasy about cleaning yourself, take it to a camera store. I used to do that in the past, but at $80/cleaning, I thought I'd try to get at least basic cleaning done myself.

I've used Eclipse, a rubber spatula made for the sensor size and pads that have worked well. Don't scrub the sensor. Years ago I scratched it and cost over $400 to replace.