Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their nativelanguage")
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sat Sep 1 13:31:16 2007
References: <C2FF81DB.25E96%eric.calderwood@btinternet.com> <C54266C76B166C2B83DA6771@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
Well, this feels a bit like witchcraft, but I did 20 consecutive cycles of
        * blow dust with 10 squeezes of the Rocket
        * Spin the brush and brush the sensor once on each side
        * Lather, rinse, repeat. Well, not really lather and rinse.
And it worked. I took 20 test shots of a clear blue sky and there were no 
dust spots on any of them.  My M8 sensor is clean again. Tra la.

I have no idea how the dirt got in there, but obviously it did. Maybe the SD 
card slot has an air path to the sensor, or something evil like that.




> Each time I do it there is less dust, so I suppose if I do it a LOT more,
> maybe 10 or 15 or 20 applications of the brush with a "recharge" each time,
> it will get it all.
Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their native language"))
 In reply to: Message from eric.calderwood at btinternet.com (Eric Calderwood) ([Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their nativelanguage"))
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] M8 cleaning mystery ("But English *is* their nativelanguage"))