Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve, I have and use the Arctic Butterfly (good Canadian product) but find that I tend to wait to clean the sensor until the dirt is really stuck on and then I go to the 1.3 swabs and the visible dust cleaner. It is safe and works (reasonably) well. Check out www.visibkedust.com Dust on the M8 sensor is a real pain in the a** if like me you shoot panoramas at small apertures for extended depth of field and you see the dust pattern repeated in panel after panel. I hope Leica follows others in adding dust shaking features to a future digital M (like virtually all others are doing / have done) but based on Leica's history of adopting features like built in light meters and such I am not holding my breath. It is time consuming to clean up all these spots!! Cheers Howard On 12 Jan 2009, at 6:11 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > Steve Barbour wrote: >> >> On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >>> Steve, >>> Take a look at Visible Dust products - I've used their rotating >>> brush, swabs and cleaning lfluids on my Canon 20D and 300D with >>> great >>> success. A blower bulb is also useful for loose dust. >>> >>> The spinning brush generates static in its bristles to pick off >>> loose >>> dust without having to touch the sensor. I usually use this every >>> time before I take a digital out, just to make sure. >> >> I really like the idea...seems rather expensive, safe ? works ? >> >> Steve >> >