Leon Altoff wrote: > Has > anyone else noticed a reducing need to clean their sensor over time?
I noted the same thing iwth my *ist-D. Shooting snow crystals really makes the dust spots and sensor flaws pop. I used to clean the sensor every few week with wet swabs, this year one cleaning at the start of the season took care of it. WI th the K10D I've had to use the blower once or twice, otherwise no problems. > 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. I was horrified a few years ago to find shiny spots on the front element of my A* 400 f2.8. Not used near salt spray but used around fresh water spray. The "breath on lens" treatment was ineffective, so I tried rubbing alcohol, it too did not work. I finally used some Kodak water based lens cleaning product and it got everything fixed up just fine. I suspect distilled water would have worked as well. (You can't get protective filters for the A* 400 since it has no filter rings and a front element big enough to hold a three egg breakfast. I uses little 49mm internal filters.) - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
