How to clean your digital SLR camera
To get the best-quality images from your dSLR, you'll need to give it a dust every now and then, both on the inside and out. Camera editor Rich Trenholm guides you step-by-step through cleaning your camera to make your photos blemish-free
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Read the flipping manual
Dig out the manual -- you know, that thick book that came with the camera. Although most dSLRs operate on the same basic principles, every camera has its own way of working, and you need to know how your camera likes to be cleaned. On our battered Canon EOS 30D, the cleaning mode is easy to find.
Your dSLR will have a sensor cleaning mode. This involves locking the shutter open to gain access to the sensor. It is vitally important that you know how this works as a shutter mishap while you're finicking about inside the camera could have disastrous consequences. Go read that manual...
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