Leon I found the same thing with my istD. Dusty quite often. The Nikons i use for horse shows, very dusty, hardly needed any blower work at all.
K10D for 5 months now, and i have used a blower 1-2 timeas and the sensore shaker twice, and i see no dust. Dave On 4/23/07, Leon Altoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sat down yesterday to clean a couple of thousand images worth of nose > prints off my istD and K10D and the salt spray off my transparent lens > caps (filters) and noticed a few things. > > Despite a reasonable amount of use and frequent changes of lenses > neither was in need of a sensor clean. I used to attack the istD every > few weeks when I first got it due to the amount of spots on my images. > Now I hardly need to clean it at all. The K10D developed a few spots > after the first few weeks and after cleaning it once with a Visible Dust > sensor brush I haven't needed to do anything to it again (I do use the > shake on start up option, but I used that from the beginning). Has > anyone else noticed a reducing need to clean their sensor over time? > > I only own (well use really I have a few lenses that I haven't touched > in 3 years) 3 optical items that aren't Pentax - a Sigma 55-200mm kit > zoom that I got with my istD (It is to be replaced with the DA*60-250 > later in the year), a Tamron 2X converter (come on Pentax how about some > quality 1.4 and 2 times converters for autofocus) and a Frankenlens that > Cotty would be proud of - it gives me 2 to 8 times magnification to the > sensor. > > From the amount of salt on the filters of my lenses I will be using > protective filters for a long time. I do take them off when I'm in a > safe environment, but it's easier to take them off when it's safe than > to put them on when it's not. The coating on one of my Hoya HMC filters > has developed shiny spots and streaks and needs to be replaced and two > other lenses have managed to keep really cheap filters that are creating > extra flare in my pictures - these will be replaced as soon as I find > out if I can buy Pentax filters in Australia, order them from overseas > or find a place to buy B+W filters from. > > Now I have another 1600 images to database. > > -- > Leon > > http://www.bluering.org.au > http://www.bluering.org.au/leon > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
