Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 question
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jun 19 11:23:39 2006
References: <C0BC5FBB.12205%bdcolen@comcast.net>

You should start signing with 'endorsement by B.D. Colen' ;-)



Op 19-jun-06, om 20:05 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven:

> When all is said and done, Olympus will probably be remembered for one
> contribution to the digital revolution, and that is the self-cleaning
> sensor; it really, really works. I don't pay any more attention to  
> where I
> put my digital bodies, where I change lenses, or in any way baby  
> them any
> more than I did my Ms or film Nikons. And in all the time I've now  
> been
> using the E-1, I have had a total of one image which has a sensor  
> dust spot
> on it. I didn't clean the sensor after that, because the next time  
> I turned
> the camera on, the spot disappeared.
>
> On 6/19/06 12:36 PM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've had it happen, no doubt about that, but not nearly as much as I
>> feared. That is all I was saying.
>>
>> I did notice it the first time when I was at the coast with a vast
>> section of the photography monotonic ... sea and sky went together.
>>
>> I am fairly paranoid about how I handle the camera. When not in  
>> use, I
>> keep it in a plastic bag, not a dusty Domke. It's being used most of
>> the time though, so it is out in the open a lot.
>>
>> So far I've been able to blow the dust off. I dread the day when the
>> build up of static electricity makes that impossible.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On 6/19/06, Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> wrote:
>>> Daniel and Jayanand - I believe that if either one of you actually
>>> photograph a cloudless sky or blank piece of paper (to medium gray)
>>> you will see the evidence of dust on your sensors. Give it a try and
>>> let me know. It's a very real issue with medium gray areas without
>>> detail. Sometimes you have to blow up the image a bit to see the
>>> effects.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> george@imagist.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is a wee bit over exaggerated, Jayanand, but it exists. It  
>>>> happened
>>>> to me once with my D100, but it came off easily with a standard
>>>> rubber-bulb blower.
>>>>
>>>> On 6/18/06, Jayanand Govindaraj <jgovindaraj@eth.net> wrote:
>>>>> I have the Nikon D70, live in an atrociously dusty environment,
>>>>> change
>>>>> lenses quite frequently, and I have not had to clean the sensor
>>>>> either!!
>>>>> I think this problem is a wee bit overdone.
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Jayanand
>>>>> Chennai, India
>>>
>>>
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