Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, chill out. It is no big deal. I live in one of driest and dustiest places in Europe and I only have to clean the sensor perhaps once every 3 months and even then I use no liquids, just a micro vacuum cleaner. You just have to be reasonably careful: turn off the camera before changing lenses (the theory here is that if the camera is on, there is a static charge on the sensor which attracts dust--maybe an urban legend but makes intuitive sense); point the camera downwards when changing lenses; do not change lenses if you are on the beach in one the windy day. And so on. It really is not complicated. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Mar 4, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Frank Filippone wrote: > It is obvious to me that my experience is not unique. It comes as pretty > much of a shock to all new removable lens Digi-Camera users. > > Film has no analogy at all. > > Amazing that discussion type it is not more prominent in this kind of > "environment". ( Speaking of the LUG, but would be applied to other forums > as well.) > > There is not a single product that has ONLY good points.... and for > Digi-Cameras, talking about live-view, pixel counts, ISO, etc is all > secondary to the rather profound change that dust and the digital sensor > world require a new skill set called sensor cleaning...... How? > Frequency? > Products, both good and worthless? How to avoid the problem as far as can > be > practical? > > Please continue to instruct us as ( na?ve) users with your techniques and > knowledge..... We really need it. > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >