Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/03

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Subject: [Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their native language")
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon Sep 3 21:39:45 2007
 
> Well, this feels a bit like witchcraft, but I did 20 consecutive cycles of
> * blow dust with 10 squeezes of the Rocket
> * Spin the brush and brush the sensor once on each side
> * Lather, rinse, repeat. Well, not really lather and rinse.
> And it worked. I took 20 test shots of a clear blue sky and there were no
> dust spots on any of them.  My M8 sensor is clean again. Tra la.
> 
> I have no idea how the dirt got in there, but obviously it did. Maybe the 
> SD
> card slot has an air path to the sensor, or something evil like that.
> 
> 
> 
You didn't change lenses?


Maybe your tri Elmar is like a revolving door for dusty air?

Mark William Rabiner
Harlem, NY

rabinergroup.com
Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) ([Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their nativelanguage"))
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