Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How do you people get dust and crap inside your cameras? Particularly the M8 owner-users? I haven't touched my M8 since I got it, a couple years ago? Only once in awhile when there's a large blue sky area do I see anything then I do a quick on screen spotting as though it were film. However, 99.9% of the time there isn't anything there to clean. Jeeesh maybe I'm becoming blind in my only one good eye or it's beginning to fail me? Naw never happen! :-) The big problem I have with any poking around inside the camera is left over from the olden days when a camera required any kind of maintenance....inside? It went to a guy who knew how to do it because he worked on the guts and didn't take pictures. And the rule was, "if anything needs to be done inside the camera let the guy who fixes them do it. Then along comes digital which I assumed would be scarier to dig around inside and people talk about blowing into and jiggling a brush around inside and it scares the hell out of me. So far I guess the dust gremlins have taken pity on the old guy as I've not had any problems!!! cheers, Dr. ted -) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 Awesomeness 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information