Re: Is this dust?

[Paul Stenquist]

Or the drug store. A sterile ear syringe works great. Just squeeze the 
bulb and you get a blast of perfectly clean, dry air. I blow off my 
sensors once a week using the ear syringe. By cleaning it often, I've 
never had to resort to anything more aggressive. My oldest camera is 
about 14 months old.
Paul
On Mar 20, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Dave Kennedy wrote:

Wow. I thought that using a q-tip was a big no-no.
Time for a trip to the camera store.
dk
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:14:01 +0100, Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks very much like dust.
Btw, I cleaned my sensor yesterday. It's been a very long while since
last time.
The gas blaster didn't remobe all of it this time. :-( After Easter
I'll pick up some of those specially designed swabs.
Yesterday, in lack of other options, I dared using an ordinary Q-tip,
and it actually worked very well. No solvents or anything, just the
cotton. It left a long white fibre in there, but that was very easy to
get out compared to those invisible little dots that only show up in
the pictures.
Jostein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:09 AM
Subject: Is this dust?
Ok, I'm new with the DSLR thing (DS), and I just noticed a couple of
light 'blobs' on my pics.
see here :
http://www.pbase.com/davekennedy/image/40990668
Is this dust on the CCD?
Stays with the camera, still there after changing lenses.
Does this mean I'll have to (gulp) clean the ccd?
dk