Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's good news Howard, and, Jayanand, I'd never heard of the word "jugaad" and had to look it up. It's a great word for all those jury rigged repair improvisations that I use around the house. My wife always wonders where the clothes pegs go. Now if I could only pronounce it properly... Douglas On 10/09/2022 17:46, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > Excellent. > > Jugaad in all its glory! > > Cheers > Jayanand > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 10-Sep-2022, at 21:45, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> wrote: >> >> ?So here?s how the Spider Saga has played out. >> >> I bought a sensor-cleaning kit from Amazon consisting of individually >> hermetically-sealed-in-a-clean-room swabs that look like little solid >> brooms as wide as the height of a FF sensor plus a dropper bottle of >> cosmically pure water that costs more per ml than Lagavullin. (The kit?s >> from Canada, so it starts out with street cred.) But I thought that >> something more than water would do a better job of getting this organic >> crud off. The lens wipes made by Zeiss are just right for this job. >> They?re little rectangles of folded-up lintfree paper saturated with >> isopropyl alcohol, and their folded size is almost exactly the same as >> that of the sensor, the mirror, and the focusing screen. >> >> To start, I used the air bulb to blow the desiccated spider body and the >> one visible leg out. Then I placed one of the folded wipes on the sensor >> and let it sit for about a minute, gently moving it around. I removed it >> with tweezers, then used the lens swab moistened with water to wipe the >> residue off. I repeated the process with water alone and the sensor >> cleaned up very nicely. >> >> Then I noticed a smear on the focusing screen, apparently where the >> critter had been mashed against it when the mirror cycled, so I turned >> the camera upside down and put a folded-up wipe on the focusing screen >> and locked the mirror up to hold the wipe between the two. I let that sit >> for a minute and then lowered the mirror again. I finished off with water >> and a fresh sensor swab on both the screen and the mirror, and everything >> looks factory fresh now. >> >> With a little trepidation, I fired the shutter a few times to see whether >> there was spider-stuff on the curtain that would rub off on the sensor >> again, likely necessitating a trip to Nikon. Happy to say, didn?t happen. >> >> Plus, now I have 8 remaining swabs and most of a bottle of Lagavullin >> water for the next time the sensor gets dirty. I love happy endings! >> >> ?howard >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information