Bob, Gray, Bob, Mike, Joe....
thanks!
I found the manual :-) yes, thre are instructions... pretty much what
you guys said to do... but I couldn't find my
blower... (I like to blame the cat for the disappearance of things like
that) ... however.... as it happens....
I have a nice unused turkey baster ...
I have, in fact, two unused turkey basters because a friend had gotten
them to use as knitting needles
for a larger project and then gave up... she gave them to me knowing I
would likely know what they
were for.
I'm pretty sure I can do the sensor cleaning myself... of course, the
index in the manual doesn't list that
under "sensor" but "cleaning" ...
The key thing in the canon manual seemes to be that the camera has a
nice fresh battery in it and
the camera has to be turned on to clean it.
details at 11
ann
Bob W wrote:
Ann,
The sensor is right where the film would be.
Look in the operating manual for sensor cleaning.
Pentax has a special mode that is like putting the camera in
bulb mode.
It flips the mirror up and opens the shutter until you close it.
Then you can try a big blower to puff on the sensor and blow
the dust off.
Otherwise, visit the repairman or get a cleaning kit on ebay.
Regards, Bob S.
It's important to hold the camera so that the plane of the sensor is facing
the ground, and blow upwards at it so that the dust falls out of the camera,
not back into it. You may have to have 2 or 3 goes at it. Earlier this
evening I cleaned the sensor of my Leica this way, then took a shot of clear
blue sky to see if any evil spirits remained. I had to do this about 3 times
until I was reasonably confident that the exorcism had been successful.
The most popular blower thing is called Giotto Super Rocket-Air, and looks
like a turkey baster, among other things.
http://www.giottos.com/Rocket-air.htm
When French customs inspected my bag a few months ago the lady who found it
in there was deeply suspicious of it. I explained that it was for blowing
into cameras*, and she went off to check with a male colleague. You know
what these French are like - I think her mind was drifting in the personal
enema direction...
Bob
*actually, I may have told her it was for making souffles in cameras.
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