The little need I've had for it, it's worked fine. It's not particularly important to me, though: in several years of use, I've only had to clean the sensors in my cameras a couple of times.
G On Mar 22, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Pentaxians > That does not sound very good, any better experiences with the > integrated > dust removal? > Greetings > Markus > > > > http://pixinfo.com/en/articles/ccd-dust-removal/ > > > Pentax K10D > Part of the reason we started to organize this test was that we had > a bad > experience with the dust removal system of Pentax K10D that we had > for our > review.?Although the amplitude of the CCD movement is quite high > (one can > feel the shake on his hand), the frequency is rather low. > > After the second cleaning cycle surprisingly we have found more > spots on the > image than we had before it. This could be caused by the dust stuck > in the > mirror area. One thing is sure though: this system is not working as > promised. Even after the 25th cleaning cycle we had all the spots > on place. > I tried really hard to find one disappearing spot, but I failed. So > did the > Pentax dust removal system. Effectiveness: 0%. > > After using the air blower the remaining spots decreased to a > dozen. This > shows, that the sensor's surface is not statically charged. Knowing > this > increases our disappointment even more. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
