Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Meino. The arctic butterfly is a brush that uses static electricity to remove loose particles. Mine works fine for me. Usually I do that first and then a wet clean. I was using their orange visible dust swabs and fluid. These have worked perfectly for me on my M8. Currently the price has got so high locally that I am swapping to Dust-wand, which has a set of reusable spatulas of the different sizes and swabs that you wrap on them manually. Not as convenient but one fifth of the price locally. They also market a tacky product that is reportedly very effective. Search Dust-aid for info on this stuff. You have probably seen the Solms videos where they use something similar to clean the sensors at the factory. The main advice I suggest is to follow instructions carefully, especially the use of the dedicated menu selection on your new camera. Don't be tempted to use 'B' Oh and post M9 photographs here ;-) 2009/12/1 Meino de Graaf <meino at innerside.demon.nl> > After years of postponing, I just entered the digital age by receiving a > M9. > However I have question for the more experienced users, how do you keep the > sensor clean. There is something called the arctic butterfly, there are > sensor swaps and a new thing called sensorVu (as seen in the video of the > factory tour in Solms). As I was afraid of, it is very easy to get dust on > the sensor. > > regards > Meino de Graaf > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman