Of course, film has a huge problem with dust after the negative has been developed. Then every time you do something with it, you get lots of dust and scratches. I have spent significantly less time dealing with dust with digital than I did with film.
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, October 27, 2005, 8:39:51 PM, you wrote: WR> ----- Original Message ----- WR> From: "Markus Maurer" WR> Subject: RE: Cleaning Sensors >> Hi William and Shel >> >> Does every digital SLR need that sensor cleaning or are there better dust >> sealed bodies and are the Pentax ones better or worse in this regard than >> other brands? >> For me as a film user, that "cleaning sensor thing" seems to be necessary >> quite often, Shel's camera is nearly new. >> I seldom clean my film bodies, I just have a look at the film pressure >> plate >> when I change film if it is clean. WR> Film is nice, the dust has a moving target...... WR> William Robb