Greetings, On 3/13/04 John wrote:
>I have used my S2 for about a year and it could stand a little cleaning, >which method did you >use? I have been using Eclipse Optical Cleaning Fluid and SensorSwabs to clean my digital cameras for a couple of years now. SensorSwab makes these in several different sizes to match Kodak, Nikon, Fuji and Canon cameras. They're expensive but work quite well. Plus, I've found that you don't need to clean these all too often. For some reason, though, our Fuji cameras seem to attract more dust than my Canon 10D. I don't know if that's purely coincidence or if Fuji's chips creates more of a static charge that sucks in dust. Each camera has a procedure for opening the shutter for cleaning. For example, with the Canon 10D you select "sensor clean" from the menu and press "OK." The shutter opens and the mirror locks up. The Fuji S2 is more complicated. I have to look at the manual every time I do it. I put a drop or two of the solution on the swab and then *very carefully and gently* wipe the SensorSwab over the sensor (I guess it's actually the glass sensor cover) one time and only in one direction. Then throw the swab away. This procedure has worked very well for me. Regards, Ben Senior Medical Photographer Medical Photography & Media Design Services Sinai Hospital of Baltimore / LifeBridge Health System Baltimore, Maryland USA =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
