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Subject: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:48:45 +0930
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Built in vibration-based cleaning is awesome.  The problem with
LensPen is that you apply more friction than a wet clean.  If you have
sharp adhering dust the chance of a scratch is much higher.  I am risk
averse when it comes to these things.

Marty


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
<jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lenspen - the size of the sensor does not matter. In a similar vein, I
> have not cleaned ?my Nikon D300 even once since buying it when it
> first came out, not even on my frequent wildlife trips, just proving
> the efficacy of an inbuilt cleaning system. It is much, much dustier
> in our jungles....
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Changing lenses on my M8 in a similar environment in Botswana last
>> year led to a very long and nerve-wracking but relatively simple and
>> ultimately profitable workout for my Arctic Butterfly. ?I cannot
>> imagine how much dust the giant CCD in the S2 could attract and hang
>> on to. ?And how do you clean it when no-one makes sensor swabs the
>> right size?
>>
>> Marty
>>
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