Help (What is this)? Hi Hope your keeping yourselves safe during this Pandemic. I would usually head to my local camera store for help with this (God I miss the good old days). Anyway...

meangely

Hi Hope your keeping yourselves safe during this Pandemic. I would usually head to my local camera store for help with this (God I miss the good old days). Anyway my photos have a streak running from the bottom left to upper right. I have cleaned the camera, lenses, changed the lenses etc...Could it be the SD card? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

No the SD card. You've probably got something inside the camera that's in the light path between the lens and the sensor. It looks pretty big so if you have a camera with a removable lens I'd suggest looking for it.

Joe

downing Loc: Cincinnati

Is it in the same place for all shots? What kind of camera do you have, Mirror or mirror less?

Notice that the streak is partially transparent. I suspect its got do do with the mirror or otherwise in the light path. Is it there in live view, that is mirror up?

anotherview Loc: California

It looks like a hair. Try using a blower to shoot air into the lens opening of the camera with mirror lockup to expose the sensor.

Note that I specify a hand blower that uses only the ambient air, not a canister of air. Canisters use a carrier that will contaminate the innards of your camera

Face the opening downward while blowing air up into it.

This action may dislodge whatever the object is.

If this doesn't work, then you may wish to consider going to a camera shop, if you can find one.

Or you may have to send your camera to the repair shop.

meangely wrote:

Hi Hope your keeping yourselves safe during this Pandemic. I would usually head to my local camera store for help with this (God I miss the good old days). Anyway my photos have a streak running from the bottom left to upper right. I have cleaned the camera, lenses, changed the lenses etc...Could it be the SD card? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Ysarex wrote:

No the SD card. You've probably got something inside the camera that's in the light path between the lens and the sensor. It looks pretty big so if you have a camera with a removable lens I'd suggest looking for it.

Joe

Looks like a piece of thin lint or hair on the sensor, get a jet blaster, lock up the mirror if you have one, invert the camera and blow out the dust and lint.

bleirer

I'd try running the sensor cleaner a couple times and then remove the lens and put the camera in sensor cleaning mode, hold the camera upside down and blow out the cavity with one of those manual air blowers. Don't use canned air and don't get near touching the sensor.

If no go you might need a sensor cleaning. There are do it yourself kits but you have to be really careful.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I had a hair like this for about 6 months, driving me crazy. No matter how much I ran the sensor self-clean or 'blew out' the camera interior, I couldn't find it and couldn't fix it.

Finally, this solution:

1. Make sure your camera battery is fully charged.
2. Get a pair of tweezers, to carefully grab the hair.
3. Consult your camera manual for 'sensor cleaning' and / or 'mirror lock up'
4. The problem is the hair is behind the mirror, so you have to lock up the mirror to find and remove it with your tweezers. Grab it at an end that is not directly above the sensor, blow it around if you need to. Do not blow with your mouth, or you'll just put spit on the sensor creating a new problem. Use a Giotto Rocket Air.

meangely

Thanks so much for the quick response!

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Good luck! Let us know how it goes.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

meangely wrote:

Hi Hope your keeping yourselves safe during this Pandemic. I would usually head to my local camera store for help with this (God I miss the good old days). Anyway my photos have a streak running from the bottom left to upper right. I have cleaned the camera, lenses, changed the lenses etc...Could it be the SD card? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You have a hair on your sensor. Clean it off with tweezers or a soft brush.

dave.speeking Loc: Brooklyn OH

Looks like the handle of a three wood.

jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

I agree--look at the mirror. On one of my older DSLRs a small bug got inside and died and stuck to my mirror. It was a pretty good conversation piece but ultimately annoying.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

jaycoffman wrote:

I agree--look at the mirror. On one of my older DSLRs a small bug got inside and died and stuck to my mirror. It was a pretty good conversation piece but ultimately annoying.

Think about this for a moment.
Where is the mirror the instant the photo is actually taken?
How could it possibly show up in the photo if it’s on the mirror?

jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

GoofyNewfie wrote:

Think about this for a moment.
Where is the mirror the instant the photo is actually taken?
How could it possibly show up in the photo if it’s on the mirror?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It did not show up on the pictures but it did face me on every shot I took. It was still a good conversation piece in that I could say "I still have to get the bugs out..."

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

jaycoffman wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It did not show up on the pictures but it did face me on every shot I took. It was still a good conversation piece in that I could say "I still have to get the bugs out..."

Ha! That’s a good one!
Cheers!
Stay safe!!!