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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 question
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jun 19 11:30:01 2006
References: <C0BC64DF.12212%bdcolen@comcast.net>

You missed the ;-)



Op 19-jun-06, om 20:27 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven:

> You miss the point...I'm not endorsing anything, nor am I  
> suggesting it's a
> reason to buy the equipment. All I'm saying is that it's a real bit of
> innovation - one that Panasonic has already licensed, and Leica  
> will too if
> it's smart, and if Olympus wants to license it.
>
>
> On 6/19/06 2:23 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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