[Leica] S2 Awesomeness MARTY???

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

>
> 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

I'd be surprised if your blow ups did not show some dust: My M8 and 9 both
need regular blowing out and from time to time harder cleaning. I would
love to have the Olympus system on my cameras: Helen has never had to
clean her sensor. I've cleaned mine and others "often". Its not hard, but
a bit scary sometimes, expecially with "sticky" dust or pollen, which
requires a real "scrub"

Cheers

Alastair