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Subject: [Leica] RE: Re: 4/3 question (B. D. Colen)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Mon Jun 19 16:39:23 2006

B.D. 
The sensor dust issue evidently is one that requires consideration with
DSLRs. 
There's another option that some LUG members take.
You can use a 21MP analog, non-crop factored, non-proprietary renewable
sensor surface and blow the dust off before you scan ;-)

I think that Olympus should best be remembered for birthing the OM cameras,
for their innovation, form factor, OTF metering, bright finders etc etc

Recidivist Hoppy

My 2.7 c worth at today's exchange rate.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:05:47 -0400
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Leica] 4/3 question
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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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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