[Leica] Leica Email on Sensor Cleaning

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Bob,
All manufacturers recommend that, they would, wouldn't they - at what
they charge it must be quite a steady source of income. I recently
bought what the Leica technicians use, the Eyelead Sensor Cleaner, and
it works very efficiently and very well - as does my long time
cleaning system, the SensorKlear - on the Fuji X-Pro 1 and the XE-1,
which do not have the AA filter, just like the Leica digitals. The
Nikon D800E is less of a risk, because it does have a filter on the
sensor, and basically, you are cleaning the filter, not the sensor.
The Nikon D810 dispenses with the AA filter assembly altogether. I
have been cleaning the sensors myself ever since I switched to digital
with the Nikon D70, with not a single problem as yet, IMHO, it is a
very simple thing to do.

http://www.eyelead.eu/fotoreinigung.html

https://www.lenspen.com/?cPath=_1&products_id=SK-1-a&tpid=323

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> This morning I received an email from Leica - I assume because I am on one
> of their mailing lists - about sensor cleaning.  This link should take you
> to a web version:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/qhpn8ey
>
> In essence they do not recommend using anything that touches the sensor. If
> you can't get the dust off using a rubber blower they say 'send it in for
> service'.
>
> Interesting.
>
> --Bob
>
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