[Leica] Spider smear update

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Excellent.

Jugaad in all its glory! 

Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 10-Sep-2022, at 21:45, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> ?So here?s how the Spider Saga has played out.
> 
> I bought a sensor-cleaning kit from Amazon consisting of individually 
> hermetically-sealed-in-a-clean-room swabs that look like little solid 
> brooms as wide as the height of a FF sensor plus a dropper bottle of 
> cosmically pure water that costs more per ml than Lagavullin. (The kit?s 
> from Canada, so it starts out with street cred.) But I thought that 
> something more than water would do a better job of getting this organic 
> crud off. The lens wipes made by Zeiss are just right for this job. 
> They?re little rectangles of folded-up lintfree paper saturated with 
> isopropyl alcohol, and their folded size is almost exactly the same as 
> that of the sensor, the mirror, and the focusing screen.
> 
> To start, I used the air bulb to blow the desiccated spider body and the 
> one visible leg out. Then I placed one of the folded wipes on the sensor 
> and let it sit for about a minute, gently moving it around. I removed it 
> with tweezers, then used the lens swab moistened with water to wipe the 
> residue off. I repeated the process with water alone and the sensor 
> cleaned up very nicely. 
> 
> Then I noticed a smear on the focusing screen, apparently where the 
> critter had been mashed against it when the mirror cycled, so I turned the 
> camera upside down and put a folded-up wipe on the focusing screen and 
> locked the mirror up to hold the wipe between the two. I let that sit for 
> a minute and then lowered the mirror again. I finished off with water and 
> a fresh sensor swab on both the screen and the mirror, and everything 
> looks factory fresh now.
> 
> With a little trepidation, I fired the shutter a few times to see whether 
> there was spider-stuff on the curtain that would rub off on the sensor 
> again, likely necessitating a trip to Nikon. Happy to say, didn?t happen.
> 
> Plus, now I have 8 remaining swabs and most of a bottle of Lagavullin 
> water for the next time the sensor gets dirty. I love happy endings! 
> 
> ?howard
> 
> 
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