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 >> long time since I had to do more than use the blower or the camera's >> dust removal feature, so I'm wondering what you guys recommend for >> sensor cleaning these days. >> >> Back at my old camera shop, we used Sensor Swabs and Eclipse cleaning >> fluid. Are there better options out there? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> > 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.
If Walt takes a look at the mirror on his K100, he can see a bit of discoloration from my using dustoff to clean the mirror. > I always do a "practice squirt" away from the camera to ensure that no > propellant is going to come out. > After that, if I still have dust, I go to the wet cleaners, which I have had > to do exactly 3 times now since I bought my first DLSR in 2003. I have one of the Pentax sensor cleaning lollipops. > > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
