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Hello, you helpful lot. I hope. Found that I had a big bit of gunk on the sensor of my 8 year old M262 - it showed up on the photos. So I've taken my trusty blower brush to the sensor. There are still a few spots (see image) that I can't budge. They don't seem to show up. Is this a clean enough sensor in your experiences ? Is your sensor showing dust like this or is it pristine ? If you think I should get rid of the dust showing - how would I do that beyond the blower brush ? Thank you as ever for your collective help. In the past Leica colleagues have been magnificent in their help. Best Regard to all 262ers and all others of course.
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I'd like to hear from other M9 owners if they are experiencing dust problems on their sensors. I've had my M9 for a little over a month now, shot 3000+ frames with it, and have had to drop my camera off at Leica headquarters in NJ (an hour away) twice now to have it cleaned. Their thoughts are that the camera did not come from Solms with the dust they found in it - and they politely reminded me that it is not a "sealed" body. I take great care when changing lenses to blow off the rear elements with a Rocket blower prior to putting them on. I change lenses quickly and am careful where I do this (no dusty factory floors or wood shops, etc.). I always have the camera OFF when changing lenses so the sensor is not charged - which I hear can attract dust. And I live and work and shoot in fairly clean environments - outdoors mostly, in the clean NE Pennsylvania air. The Leica technician said that there's always microscopic dust floating around and that I cannot expect to have a perfectly clean sensor....and recommended the DustAid Platinum product - which I have now bought and will use sometime soon probably. But I have been shooting with Nikons for the last five years with relatively little in the way of dust problems. So what do you think? Is the Lecia M9 (and M8 I presume) not robust enough to take professional use when it comes to tight seals? Or is this just a new fact of life that I have to learn to live with - that dust will always be an issue with an M9 and that I'll just have to get used to cleaning the sensor? Geoffrey