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Subject: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:25:49 +0930
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Ted, you must live in a place with clean air.  If I had to send my
camera to a repair shop to clean the sensor it would be there more
than in my bag.  I typically clean the sensor of my M8 fortnightly.

Marty


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> I am totally with Dr. Ted on this one in ten years of digital shooting I've
> never touched a sensor.
> Air.
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
>> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:47:13 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness
>>
>> How do you people get dust and crap inside your cameras? Particularly the 
>> M8
>> owner-users?
>>
>> I haven't touched my M8 since I got it, a couple years ago? Only once in
>> awhile when there's a large blue sky area do I see anything then I do a
>> quick on screen spotting as though it were film.
>> However, 99.9% of the time there isn't anything there to clean. Jeeesh 
>> maybe
>> I'm becoming blind in my only one good eye or it's ?beginning to fail me?
>> Naw never happen! :-)
>> The big problem I have with any poking around inside the camera is left 
>> over
>> from the olden days when a camera required any kind of
>> maintenance....inside? It went to a guy who knew how to do it because he
>> worked on the guts and didn't take pictures. And the rule was, "if 
>> anything
>> needs to be done inside the camera let the guy who fixes them do it.
>>
>> Then along comes digital which I assumed would be scarier to dig around
>> inside and people talk about blowing into and jiggling a brush around 
>> inside
>> and it scares the hell out of me. So far I guess the dust gremlins have
>> taken pity on the old guy as I've not had any problems!!!
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted -)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness
>>
>>
>> Lenspen - the size of the sensor does not matter. In a similar vein, I
>> have not cleaned ?my Nikon D300 even once since buying it when it
>> first came out, not even on my frequent wildlife trips, just proving
>> the efficacy of an inbuilt cleaning system. It is much, much dustier
>> in our jungles....
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Changing lenses on my M8 in a similar environment in Botswana last
>>> year led to a very long and nerve-wracking but relatively simple and
>>> ultimately profitable workout for my Arctic Butterfly. I cannot
>>> imagine how much dust the giant CCD in the S2 could attract and hang
>>> on to. And how do you clean it when no-one makes sensor swabs the
>>> right size?
>>>
>>> Marty
>>>
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