On 12 Jul 2004 at 17:48, Jan van Wijk wrote:

> Hi Rob,

> So what are using to get rid of the dust ?
> 
> I just returned from 3 weeks of holliday with about a 1000 images shot
> and lots of lense changing, and there are at least 5 or six clearly
> visible dust-spots now  :-(

Three cut and pastes from my previous posts this year follow:

I've been using plain old bottled nitrogen and an oxygen regulator with hose 
and pistol type attachment to clean my cameras, lenses, film, scanner and to 
fill my chemistry bottles before refrigerating them for quite a few years now. 
It has never harmed any of my film bodies and the *ist D came up very clean 
without me having to resort to using swabs or other forms of physical contact. 
I haven't a decent portable solution though.

I've not trashed any shutters and I never end up more crap in
the finder than I started with, generally one blast will clean out everything.

AU$150 for an oxy reg, gun and 10m of HP hose then after that it's the rental 
on the bottles that kills the fun. A G bottle (7m3) or industrial grade 
compressed nitrogen (Moisture at 15�C  <100ppm at full cylinder pressure  BOC 
product #032) costs only about AU$66 to fill and lasts a good year or so even 
when used frequently.

Cheers,


Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998


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