Lock the mirror open, lay the camera on the floor, and urinate on the sensor. I've never heard of a single instance where this failed. (Don't kill me Bill)
I use canned air. It's pretty fast so unless your battery is nearly dead you should be able to pull it off before the mirror comes back. Obviously, don't get the tube so close to the sensor that the cryogenic liquid actually collects on the surface of the sensor. Also, if something were to get in there larger than dust you could blow it around hard enough to nick the sensor. Also be sure you don't accidently grab the WD-40. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On May 16, 2010, at 4:49 PM, William Robb wrote: > >> >> This make people cringe, but I lock the mirror up and shoot the sensor >> with canned gas. >> It seems to work, and I haven't hurt anything yet. >> I mentioned this on ForumsNeurotica and got soundly thrashed for >> recommending a cleaning method that would surely wreck the camera, so I >> challenged the good people there to come up with one single instance where >> they could verify canned gas wrecking a camera. >> The closest I got was a guy who met a guy coming out of a camera store who >> had apparently done some damage to his camera while cleaning it, but it >> wasn't really verifiable that the canned gas was the culprit... > > I didn't wreck a camera with canned air, but I did damage the mirror in my > K100 by cleaning it with canned air. >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
