On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just ask Cotty. Last year at GFM he was using a zoom > to do some ground-level macro shooting around the > dusty campsite. His sensor looked like the inside of > a vacuum cleaner afterwards.
Thats what he gets for waiting till the last minute for the phot contest.:-0 In all seriousness, the sensor looked bad. Dust is a fact of life in Dslr's. Just try and change lenses in a calm area, and to change as little as possible. I make a habit of using a good blower once a week, weither is see dust or not. My D2H had dust out of the box. Dave > > > > > --- Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can a zoom lens be used as a vacuum cleaner? > > (cleaning the space around, and collecting all that > > dust on the sensor) > > > > A fellow on dpreview forums claims that operating > > zoom on Pentax > > 18-250 provides suction that leads to dust > > penetrating inside the lens. > > > > > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=27304333 > > > > Any comments? > > > > Has anybody seen any objective results about this > > suction effect in > > zooms? (Most zooms do not have dust-sealed design, > > so this effect should > > not be limited just to this lens.) > > > > Igor > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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 to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
