My son and I shot a lot of pics together at an air show in Jacksonville on Sat. When I downloaded the pics the first thing I noticed was the filthy images from the istDL that I had let my son use. I seldom use the camera since getting the K10 a year ago, but I don't remember it being this dirty the last time I had used it. I tried blowing the dust out with a squeeze bulb but no luck. So, this morning I bought a cleaning kit, the Green Clean. It uses a wet and dry swab and a canned air vacuum. I tried the vacuum first but it was still pretty dirty. Under a bright light the grime and spots were readily visible. So, I broke out the wet/dry swabs. Short version, they work, but not as easily as described in the instructions. There seemed to be a lot of redidue left by the wet swab that was difficult to remove with the dry swab. A second attempt was necessary but it did come clean. A final blast of air and it shows a very clean sensor, visually and with an exposure of the clear blue sky. I inspected the K10 because there were a couple of spots that had shown up on the airshow images from it, but a blast of air was all that was needed to restore it to full service. I guess there is something to be said in favor of the K10 sensor being either "cleaner running" or the built in sensor clean system does work at least a little.
Walt -- 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.
