Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, Okay, I'll keep the dust if you'll keep those british Columbia winter skies and incessant rain (though in such an arid place we find ourselves wishing for rain often). Marty On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:22 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Marty, > Well old buddy I'm glad you have it on your side of planet. If I had to > open > and clean an M camera as often as you, I think I'd put one lens on and > never > change it. :-) > > Just the thought of brushing around the insides almost gives me the shivers > thinking about it! :-( > > Althouh I guess like many other things, one becomes skilled and it becomes > a > piece of cake. However right now? I think I'll stay here with the water in > the air. ;-) > > cheers, > ted > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness MARTY??? > > > HI Ted, > > Adelaide is on the edge of a desert. ?The atmospheric humidity is > always low and often it is very low (under 20% RH). ?It's just a very > dusty place. ?If I'm outside anywhere, there is dust. > > Though my worstM8 sensor cleaning ?experience was in Namibia: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/ > > I can see the kind of dust I am trying to clean in an A4/8x10 size > print, particularly on clear skies. > > Glad to see you back, > > Marty > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:21 PM, ?<tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >> Marty Deveney offered: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness >> >> >> Ted, you must live in a place with clean air. If I had to send my >> camera to a repair shop to clean the sensor it would be there more >> than in my bag. I typically clean the sensor of my M8 >> fortnightly.<<<<<<<<<< >> >> Hi Marty, >> Well the clean air bit is quite true on Canada's wet west coast this time >> of >> the year. :-) >> >> But I don't handle my M8 any different than I did any of the dozen or so M >> cameras that I used over the years... I never fiddled inside the camera. >> >> What do you shoot where there's so much dust and dirt around that you have >> to clean the sensor that often. >> >> OR? How big do you enlarge your screen to find this cleaning necessary? >> And >> can you see the difference before and after cleaning on a 13X19 print >> size? >> cheers, >> ted >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >