[Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their native language")

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Brian --

 From the Visible Dust website:

Do I spin the Sensor Brush?/Arctic Butterfly? on the sensor?

No. The brush should never be spun on the sensor. 
The reason for spinning the brush is to 
re-establish the charge over the bristles and to 
clean off any residual debris that may have been left after the last 
cleaning.


Hope this helps.  I like Visible Dust, but LensPen is much easier to use.

Tina



At 01:42 PM 9/1/2007, you wrote:
>My M8 sensor needs to be cleaned. I bought a 
>cleaning kit from Visible Dust. It includes a 
>gizmo that spins the cleaning brush with a 
>battery operated motor. Sensor Brush SD.
>
>Below I have transcribed the entire list of 
>instructions. I am completely utterly baffled by 
>Instruction #4, and I wonder if any of you has any idea what I should do.
>----------------------------
>Sensor Brush SD Instructions:
>
>1. Requires 2 "AAA" batteries. Use high quality 
>batteries for best performance. Remove the 
>batteries before traveling on an airplane.
>
>2. Do not use on camera chamber or parts other 
>than the sensor, otherwise you will smear the sensor.
>
>3. Keep both the device and brush in stable 
>vertical position as much as possible.
>
>4. DO NOT use the brush on the sensor while attached to the device.
>
>5. You can pull off adapter and change for use 
>with anotgher brush size adapter when necessary.
>
>6. If brush wobbles while spinning, change to a 
>new battery or re-insert the brush more securely into the adaptor.
>----------------------------
>
>
>
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