Thanks Scott and Randy, have you guys used a wet method?
My fiance shoots professionally, and I've taken over the role of "equipment tech" as she's become much busier. I am learning a ton about photography, and being a gizmo geek, I enjoy it. She usually takes her cameras into Samy's for cleanings, but as she's doing more and more shoots, taking the cameras in for a few days is a big inconvenience. I figure we can save a lot of money and time by cleaning it ourselves.
Okay, next question:
She was shooting with her 1Ds and it started producing what I thought was a damaged pixel, but it seems way too big to be a pixel. I went through all the internal cleaning methods with no luck, and then I put it into manual clean mode to take a look at the sensor. I could see a large spot on the sensor that corresponds to the location in the pic. I used one of those rocket blowers and no luck.
The spot is confusing me, as a speck of dust should appear dark, right? When I searched stuck pixels, it showed a spot like this, white with the black outline.
I don't want to mess with it anymore since it's real new and it's still under warranty, I figure let Canon deal with it if there's damage to it, but before I take it in I wanted to see if any of you have run across this.
Crop of spot: