I use an a medical bulb designed for cleaning ears. It blows a good puff when squeezed. I keep it boxed so that it remains sterile. I've been cleaning the sensor on my *istD since it was introduced that way, and it's still clean. What is it, four years? I also clean my K10D with the squeeze bulb. Very infrequently. No problems. I've not yet had to use a cleaning kit or get professional help. Paul On Oct 22, 2007, at 6:56 PM, MikeM wrote:
> After changing lenses a few times in the last week, always as > carefully possible, pointing the K100 down, there were a few blobs > on the shot taken after one of the changes. I didn't have a sensor > cleaning kit so I used the blower from a cheap blower brush and it > did the trick. Did I get lucky? Does the coating I read about on the > Pentax sensors make it easier to blow dust off? I assume it won't > always be so easy to clean, so are there any suggestions a to which > cleaning kit to get? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
