How to remove grease from 40D sensor

[JCL]

Oh god, while manually cleaning my 40D sensor, I appear to have smeared it with grease from my otherwise excellent Arctic Butterfuly (Visible Dust) cleaning device. See attached - deliberately OOF taken against blue sky

How the heck do I remove this safely - i.e. without worsening the situation?

Please don't say 'send back to Canon': I live in Argentina, and there's no real Canon service centre here. And I'm not due back in the UK for a year, so that's not really an option.

Help!

:C

[reptilian]

are you sure its grease? have you tried a blower device on it?

[Keith Reeder]

A fair question from Reptilian, but assuming you're already familiar with sensor cleaning as is implied by your use of the Arctic Butterfly, you have no choice but a wet clean (and probably several) using Pec Pads/Sensor Swabs or an equivalent and Eclipse fluid.

You'll need "E2", apparently.

[Madmitch]

Did exactly the same with my arctic butterfly to 5D, only option was to wet clean.

Mitch

[condyk]

I personally think that if you are gonna clean a sensor then you need to do a wet clean and do it properly. See if you can get hold of the eclipse/sensor swab solution over there, or get someone to buy a small kit off ebay and have it sent to you.

[JCL]

thanks, guys.

I'm not familiar with the wet clean process, but guess I'll have to be.

(I also have bad experience with e-bay, having been diddled of £1K by someone who claimed to sell a 1ds (probably nicked, in retrospect given the lack of bundled accessories), took my money and scarpered. The deal looked too good to be true; it was.)

In the meantime, it's back to the 30d, which is half the camera IMHO