Film is much harder to clean than a sensor. Paul On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Bob Blakely wrote:
> A little hydrofluoric acid will remove everything from the sensor. > > The only problem with just blowing is that the removed particles > are most > likely to remain in the camera's light box accumulating to mount a > second > sensor invasion. Further, there are oils in the air which will > eventually > build up. Not only will the oils degrade the image, they will aid dust > particle invasion by sticking them to the sensor. How soon this > will happen > is probably related to how much diesel traffic crop spraying goes > on in your > area. No amount of huffing and puffing will blow this down. I > expect digital > SLR CLA to be required more often than with film. There are several > cleaning > kits on the market specifically for sensors, but I've not tried > them yet. > > Advantage - Digital P&S and Film. > > Regards, > Bob... > -------------------------------------------------------- > "Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a > reflection." > -Jean Luc Godard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MikeM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> 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.
