Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You should start signing with 'endorsement by B.D. Colen' ;-) Op 19-jun-06, om 20:05 heeft B. D. Colen het volgende geschreven: > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >