Sony A7rii Sensor Cleaning Mode

You can also clean the image sensor manually if necessary while this message is displayed the sensor is locked in place.

Sony a7rii sensor cleaning mode.

You can also detach the lens and use a hand held camera cleaning blower to manually blow away any dust particles from the surface of the image sensor. If the dust has not been removed try cleaning using a blower as seen on step 3. Menu setup cleaning mode enter. Cleaning the sony a7r3 or any sony mirrorless or any dslr is pretty simple if not a little scary.

Select cleaning mode from the setup list and select enter to start cleaning automatically. Auto cleaning is finished. The sony a7 mark ii image sensor will shake for about a second. Check our camera s manual.

Once it s done you ll see this message on the lcd. Sony advises you to send the camera for a sensor cleaning to a service center and this is honestly the best course of action. You can recheck if dust appears with how to check for dust attached to the image sensor. This cleaning gets rid of small dust particles that haven t attached to the sensor.

I go over what it takes to clean the sensor on a digital camera by demonstrating on my sony a7ii. Turn the power off. Some mirrorless cameras have a cleaning mode too that you might need to turn on. You can use the cleaning mode in the camera menu to let the sensor shake the dust off.

I use a kit that i purchased from amazon and as you can see in the video i needed to do it pretty. If there are smudges of any kind on the sensor we recommend that a professional camera shop clean it.