is there ever an end to my M8 misery?

[Guest guy_mancuso]

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Exactly , I mean we all take measures to be careful but it finds a way. Grease is the worst since you need to wet clean it but dust can be blown out and i am not going to tell you what i do because it is NOT recommended by anyone. LOL

 

I use canned air but extremely careful at it and from a half can so most of the propellent is out and very short blast but i have been doing this a long time and don't recommend it but it works great.

[Guest Bernd Banken]

Reginald,

 

the shutter must be opened during the cleaning, I guess. So it's very important that the battery is fully charged, otherwise it could happen that you wipe the sensor and the shutter closes and could be damaged.

Therefore Nikon f.i. recommends sensorcleaning by using a AC/DC powersupply instead of a battery.

 

Cheers

Bernd

[Guest guy_mancuso]

From this end...many thanks for all the good advise!!! heartwarming!

At least I don't feel that lonely anymore knowing more people have the same problem as I do.

I do not have, and will not be able to get any cleaning pads or fluids befroe Monday, so I will not have a chance to take a "dustfree" picture before the M8 goes back home, to be upgraded.

As said I will enclose a letter and request them to clean the sensor as well.

 

 

Hopefully it will return somewhat dustfree.

 

I think mine is suffering from the " sticky" dust because a blowbrush(without the brush) would not get it of.

 

Anyway, I have a couple of weeks time to get the nessecary materials in to clean the machine myself when it gets back.

 

Thank you very much again for all the kind and very informing replies to my concern!!

 

Reginald, Ireland

 

Put a note in the box to clean the sensor , Leica will do that and probably has too anyway since the camera is coming apart fo the fix

[jrc]

I would really recommend that people buy the Visibledust sensor brushes, as mentioned in a post above.

 

http://www.visibledust.com/

 

I went the sensor swab route with my first four DSLRs, and they were a pain; I was always winding up with fluid marks on the sensor, and then having to clean those, and pushing dirt around, and having to keep the whole thing open so long that new dust got in, etc. The sensor brush does a better job, a lot faster. I don't have the electric one, because I've been okay with the regular ones, but the electric ones sound great; I'll get one sooner or later.

 

It's also possible to make your own sensor swabs out of pec pads and cleaning fluid, but this is an even greater pain in the ass.

 

I have no connection with visibledust, etc...

 

JC

[ho_co]

FWIW--

In the specifications of the M8's KAF-10500 sensor, Kodak refers to their PDF document MTD/PS-0237, "Cover Glass Cleaning for Image Sensors," whose current revision dates from 2001. (In other words, it lacks any special warning about half-thickness cover plates as in the M8. )

 

This link will download the 15 kb file: http://www.kodak.com/ezpres/business/ccd/global/plugins/acrobat/en/supportdocs/cleaningCoverGlass.pdf

[sean_reid]

I agree and it happens all the time in manufacturing , sort of the nature of the beast. they use clean rooms to install the sensors but they still have to assembly the bodies on all of this digital camera's so there is always loose grease around and by the naked eye most can't be seen.

 

 

now none of the OEM's want you to stick a sensor swab in there to clean it because there afraid most people would screw this up and send it in for a scratched sensor or something. than they would be hammered with repairs . It is just one of those unknown say nothing things they all do , is they don't want you in there playing around . Which is understandable most folks have no clue what there doing. main reason you will never see this in a manual . they would rather they clean them. Which you can do of course if your uncomfortable with it. But every camera i have bought and there have been many i always get this either out of the box or after shooting a couple hundred times the grease gets flying around a little. This normally just goes away but if it continues after some time than send it in.

 

I really hate saying this is normal but the fact is it is and not the exception

 

Right, none of the manufacturers (to my knowledge) advise any kind of contact method for cleaning the sensor and yet we all need to do it.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[khun_k]

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I did find M8 seem to get dust as easy as DSLR, I have ran thru sensor cleaning once, after went thru 400-500 shots that I remembered the first time I ever needed to do so for my 1Ds MK2 was after may be 2-3 thousand shots. May be the sensor dense is higher so it is easier to detect the dust. Other than that, the M8 is just working beautifully for me. You can veiw some test picture took over the last few days.

 

K

[marknorton]

I have used a compressed air can before - one which is specifically solvent free - and they work well for removing dust but in one instance (with a D2X), it blew the dust behind the (removeable) focussing screen. If you are using a can and want to be certain about whether there is any solvent residue, try blowing air onto a blank recordable CD - the mirror surface shows up any residue very easily.

 

Air and Visible Dust are fine for non-sticky dust. If you have sticky or grease, wet cleaning is the answer. Again, practice on a CD if you want to and only press hard enough to ensure uniform contact across the sensor - the swab should bend only very slightly.