[Leica] I did it.. the M8 Dust is gone.....

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Frank some great advice.  The part about making sure the monitor is 
cleam made me laugh out loud.  Been there, done that, Tee shirt on order...

Cheers


Mark



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Frank Filippone wrote:
> As detailed before, I had a LOT of dust on my M8 sensor.... enough that I
> was really bummed out.  I bought the Arctic Butterfly, and the sensor
> cleaning wipes from B+H.  It was my last chance to learn how to clean it
> before I sent it off to Leica for cleaning, if I failed.
> 
> First I take a reference picture.  Nice dust, I says to myself... 
> I notice that the sensor looks like it has a fingerprint on it..... which
> considering I know the sensor was clean when I got it new, means I screwed
> up somewhere and my finger brushed against the sensor.
> So I take out the Butterfly thing and go to it.... I figure no point in
> using a swab against the sensor if I had dust on it... and maybe then
> scratched something with that dust.
> Take another picture.... no change.  Looks like the dust is not the real
> problem....
> I take out swab #1 and put on the liquid.... let it soak in ( directions )
> and proceed to wipe once from each side of the swab across the sensor. (
> Note: the swab is the 1.3x type, but to be honest, it appears to be wider
> than I would think)
> Take picture.....Now I have smears across the sensor,  ( IOW, it is getting
> worse......)
> Nothing to lose... swab #2....
> This time I take a couple of swipes from each side, and notice that the
> fingerprint is slowly going away..... and the smear seems a lot better....
> Test # 3 shows the dust to be much improved, and the smearing is
> considerably better..... I am on the right track....
> Swab #3, same swipes across the sensor..... to the point that I can not see
> any residue on the sensor...
> Test #4 shows a couple of dust spots that seem not to want to move, get
> smaller, or otherwise be affected by my work.....  I am at 1:1 to my 
> desktop
> LCD, so I can track the 4 pictures, and note that the dust is just plain 
> the
> same across all the shots.... 
> So I go to move around the image to see what else is rotten when I notice
> that the spots of dust are NOT moving... 
> Seems as though my monitor had some crud on it, and THAT was part of the
> problem of immovable dust spots..... 
> Sensor is really clean now, and I am happy.....
> 
> Learning experience... clean your monitor screen before you clean your
> sensor.....
> Second message... I think it was Nathan that stated his dust removal did 
> not
> work with the Arctic Butterfly, but the swabs worked wonderfully.... I 
> think
> my experience this time duplicated his findings.....greasy fingerprints are
> like that......real dust is not.
> 
> Thanks for all the experiences, tips, support, and kick in the behind from
> all of you.....it really did help....
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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