Same rig and sequence I use. I've not yet found it necessary to use a wet swab cleaning method with any of my DSLRs since 2003.
With the K10D, if I'm going to be doing some work that has a lot of open sky or smooth toned area and requires a stopped down lens, I run the sensor dust shaking function four or five times. Haven't found a spot yet if I do that. (The Olympus and Panasonic/Leica ultrasonic wave sensor cleaning is the greatest thing going for this stuff. Every time you power on the camera, the sensor is automatically cleaned perfectly. In 7000 exposures, changing lenses frequently, using any aperture I want, I have yet to find a dust spot. Every manufacturer should license this from Olympus and incorporate it into their interchangeable lens digital camera, IMO.) Godfrey On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > On the *ist DS I've adopted a three -step approach: > > 1. Blower - much the same as you used > > 2. If that doesn't work well enough I use a Sensor brush which is > basically a nylon bristle artists' brush. See here: > > http://www.bythom.com/cleaning.htm > > 3. If there are still spots that are reluctant to be moved, I use > a wet 'sensor swab' using Eclipse liquid and Pec Pads. I cobbled > together a home made swab, similar to that described here. > > http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/howto.html > > In the 3 years that I've had the *ist DS I've only felt the need to > use the wet swab 3 times. I'm happy to clone out dust spots in > Photoshop until I feel they're getting excessive. > > > Quoting MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> After changing lenses a few times in the last week, always as >> carefully possible, pointing the K100 down, there were a few blobs >> on the shot taken after one of the changes. I didn't have a sensor >> cleaning kit so I used the blower from a cheap blower brush and it >> did the trick. Did I get lucky? Does the coating I read about on the >> Pentax sensors make it easier to blow dust off? I assume it won't >> always be so easy to clean, so are there any suggestions a to which >> cleaning kit to get? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
