Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-12 Thread Darren Addy
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: One day at the studio, I did a little experiment. I took an old UV filter, drew a small circle in it with a felt pen and measured it's transmission properties within that circle on our densitometer . I then emptied

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand it is worth remembering that you aren't touching the surface of the sensor itself, but a filter that is in front of it. I wonder how sensor cleaning works on cameras with no anti-alias filter. Is

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-12 Thread William Robb
On 12/10/2012 8:51 AM, Darren Addy wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: One day at the studio, I did a little experiment. I took an old UV filter, drew a small circle in it with a felt pen and measured it's transmission properties within that

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-10 Thread Tom C
People make mad cat sounds when I say this, but my first cleaning method is still canned gas. I've polled a couple of other websites and have come up with absolutely no verifiable evidence that anyone has ever damaged a camera using Dust Off. I always do a practice squirt away from the camera

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-10 Thread William Robb
On 10/10/2012 1:05 PM, Tom C wrote: People make mad cat sounds when I say this, but my first cleaning method is still canned gas. I've polled a couple of other websites and have come up with absolutely no verifiable evidence that anyone has ever damaged a camera using Dust Off. I always do a

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
Bill, I've heard this talk before, but you must be careful. I bought some canned cleaner stuff at Fry's Electronics. It was called Air Duster (by Memorex, I think) and I was cautious. It said, Excellent for Cleaning: Computers, Office Equipment Photo/Video Equipment and Electronics I tested on

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-10 Thread William Robb
On 10/10/2012 4:10 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Bill, I've heard this talk before, but you must be careful. I bought some canned cleaner stuff at Fry's Electronics. It was called Air Duster (by Memorex, I think) and I was cautious. It said, Excellent for Cleaning: Computers, Office Equipment

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-08 Thread Darren Addy
That is still the recommended procedure as far as I know. I bought a kit off of Amazon that had everything in it together (sensor cleaning kit), but it was kind of a waste if you already have a good blower. Worked well for me. Darren On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, John Celio

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-08 Thread William Robb
On 08/10/2012 11:36 AM, John Celio wrote: After shooting the Fleet Week air show in San Francisco last Saturday, I noticed I've got a TON of dust on my K-5's sensor. My blower couldn't remove some of it, so I need something better. It's been a long time since I had to do more than use the blower

Re: Sensor cleaning - What's the latest and greatest?

2012-10-08 Thread Larry Colen
On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:24 AM, William Robb wrote: On 08/10/2012 11:36 AM, John Celio wrote: After shooting the Fleet Week air show in San Francisco last Saturday, I noticed I've got a TON of dust on my K-5's sensor. My blower couldn't remove some of it, so I need something better. It's been a