Leon, Interesting subject that can be helpful. My helpful hint: After wiping down both the body and lens mounts with a cloth, I rub each side of my nose and apply the nose grease to both mounts. Strange?
Jack --- Leon Altoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've just been cleaning my equipment and I began to wonder how > everyone > else out there looks after their precious Pentax equipment. > > I tend to use my cameras on the coast and subject them to salt spray > so > I feel cleaning is important and I tend to clean all the equipment I > have been using at the same time and adopt a staged approach. > > First stage is cleaning the outside of everything with a warm damp > (not > wet!) cotton based paper towel followed by immediately drying it off > with a dry cotton based paper towel. These towels leave no lint or > dust > behind and are wonderful - they used them for hand drying in our > local > Qantas club. Lenses are left fully extended to ensure any residual > moisture evaporates. > > Stage 2 is to clean all the mounts - body and lens with the same > towels. > > Next comes cleaning the actual exposed optics. Filters, front > elements > if they have been exposed to the open air, all rear elements and > viewfinders. First I use canned CO2 to blow away any loose dust, > followed by a Lens pen brush (regularly replaced) and then microfiber > > (also regularly replaced). I use Eclipse and Pec Pads on anything > stubborn. > > Finally the sensors using a sensor brush. I then test for stubborn > dust > and use a sensor swipe and Eclipse if need be. As an aside did you > know > that the *istD will not let you clean the sensor if the batteries are > > not reading full? It throws up a message saying that the batteries > do > not have enough power to clean the sensor. > > I once accidentally dipped the corner of my AF360FGZ flash in salt > water > and pulled it apart and cleaned every part inside the head to make > sure > there was no lasting damage. > > So what lengths do you go to to clean your camera when you take it > places a good camera shouldn't go? > > -- > Leon > > http://www.bluering.org.au > http://www.bluering.org.au/leon > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
