On the *ist DS I've adopted a three -step approach: 1. Blower - much the same as you used
2. If that doesn't work well enough I use a Sensor brush which is basically a nylon bristle artists' brush. See here: http://www.bythom.com/cleaning.htm 3. If there are still spots that are reluctant to be moved, I use a wet 'sensor swab' using Eclipse liquid and Pec Pads. I cobbled together a home made swab, similar to that described here. http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/howto.html In the 3 years that I've had the *ist DS I've only felt the need to use the wet swab 3 times. I'm happy to clone out dust spots in Photoshop until I feel they're getting excessive. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ Quoting MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After changing lenses a few times in the last week, always as > carefully possible, pointing the K100 down, there were a few blobs > > on the shot taken after one of the changes. I didn't have a sensor > > cleaning kit so I used the blower from a cheap blower brush and it > > did the trick. Did I get lucky? Does the coating I read about on > the > Pentax sensors make it easier to blow dust off? I assume it won't > always be so easy to clean, so are there any suggestions a to which > > cleaning kit to get? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Free pop3 email with a spam filter. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/5 -- 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.
