Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 question
From: mcyclwritr at comcast.net (mcyclwritr@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Jun 19 12:28:08 2006

It may not be a reason to buy into another camera system, but if Canon 
offered an EOS 5D ASC (Automatic Sensor Cleaning), I'd pay a couple hundred 
extra for it, assuming it really worked.

-Chris Lawson   


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> You miss the point...I'm not endorsing anything, nor am I suggesting it's a
> reason to buy the equipment. All I'm saying is that it's a real bit of
> innovation - one that Panasonic has already licensed, and Leica will too if
> it's smart, and if Olympus wants to license it.
> 
> 
> On 6/19/06 2:23 PM, "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
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