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Subject: [Leica] M8 Dust
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:12:29 2009
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Howard,

I'm sorry, the correct name is

www.visibledust.com

Best!
Lluis


El 12/01/2009, a las 0:59, H&ECummer escribi?:

> 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
>>>
>>
>
>
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