Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >