Hey guys-
I went to the beach the other day to take pics of my friend surfing and of course had to change lenses in non optimal situations and now I have a bunch of specs on my sensor. I tried to see if I could get them loose with just a blower brush but they won't knock loose. Has anyone done an at home sensor cleaning or do you just take it in to the local repair shop and drop $50?
Is it safe to do yourself? and how do you do it?

I bought a sensor cleaner from my trusty pro camera shop, and its basically a bunch of brushes and a spinny top thingo which rotates the brush super fast to make them statically charged. You then brush over the sensor (after taking it off the spinny thing obviously) and it picks up all the dust.

works fabulously and only cost about $80 (australian) from memory.

there's a good chance you have dust that is now adhered due to moisture and a blower wont do the trick.

If your camera has a sensor cleanign function try that 3 times, and if you can get a Giotto blower try that. Then take it to a repair center. I agree with Tami, you may have some moisture issue too.

The camera is the D200 so it doesn't have a cleaning function unfortunately. I have the giotto rocket-blower and it hasn't done the trick unfortunately. Do you think if I have moisture issues, it is damaging to the sensor or is it just making the dust spots super hard to come off?