I have it turned off. I turn my camera on and off a lot, so it's unnecessary.
I run it every now and then, at the moment it works out to about once or twice a week. BTW, my D has never had a "wet" cleaning. Cheers, Dave At 09:32 AM 19/12/2006, Mark Cassino wrote: >For the folks who have K10D's - how have you set the dust removal >setting? I originally set it to turn on with every power up, but that >seemed excessive and I wondered if the knocking of the sensor was >ultimately good for the AS mechanism. So, now i just use it as needed >(which is not yet so far.) > >Do you see any reason NOT to use it on every power up? Do you think >using it regularly would be beneficial in terms of preventing dust >specks from building up? > >FWIW - I'm going on close to a year now since I last gave the *ist-D a >'wet' cleaning with the alcohol and swabs. During the first year of >operation it seemed that the thing got spots on the sensor just sitting >in the bag. But this summer, despite extensive use in a very dusty >locale, it's hasn't needed anything but the occasional puff of air from >a hand held blower. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
