--- Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the latest issue of Chasseur d'Images, they test > the effectiveness > of the Antidust from different vendors. Basically > their conclusion is: > it doesn't work too well except for Olympus. > All the others work to some extend but a lot less > effective then Olympus. > > Of course one can wonder how to really test this > kind of stuff. > > 2007/2/24, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 2/24/07 2:58 AM, "Brendan MacRae", > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone used the dedicated Pentax sensor > cleaning > > > kit? > > > > > > Is it worth the $35 and shipping. > > > > I have had no chance of using this, but I was > looking for it here. > > There have been a few reports of actual use in > Japan and they are all > > reporting it works well. But they equally > reporting that the price is a bit > > steep :-). > > > > It is apparently made of silicon rubber (or > something, but don't take my > > word) which is just sticky enough to lift > dust/specks which cannot be shaken > > off by usual DR motion. The tip is square, > covering the area of 1/4 or 1/6 > > of sensor (actually low pass filter) size. So if > you go over the surface > > systematically 4 times (or 6 times, I do not > remember which), you can cover > > the whole area. > > > > Since Pentax Service Centres (at least in Japan) > are using this when users > > bring their camera in, I suppose it is another > proof that it works. In > > fact, I understand that Pentax created this for > their own use first. > > > > As I said, price is rather ....... > > But I suppose it is a matter of cost vs benefit. > > As for me, so far, conventional puffing method has > been sufficient but you > > never know when you need "sticky lift" to get rid > of stubborn dust:-) When > > you need it, you need it. > > > > Ken > >
Thanks Ken, thanks Thibault. I think I'll give it a shot. I have a couple of stubburn dust spots that blowing and shaking aren't going to cure it seems. -Brendan ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
