More on Sensor Cleaning

[RSL]

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But now we know--as indicated in other posts here, and as indicated in Kodak's still-recommended cleaning instructions from 2001, and as specified at http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/20667-eclipse-e2-m8-dmr-answer-photosol-2.html#post219079 by Leica USA to A B Knapp: The M8 doesn't use indium tin oxide coatings.

 

That thread also quotes Leica saying the DMR should be cleaned with Eclipse fluid, but of course the DMR has a different sensor from the M8, so inferences should not be drawn.

 

@RSL--Thanks for the link Cleaning Digital Cameras - Introduction. But unfortunately, with the 1DSMkIII, Canon seems to have changed the rules again by introducing the ITO-coated sensor glass.

 

What fun this is become!

 

You're right, Woody, it's important and it won't go away.

 

--HC

 

Howard, The whole situation is a can of worms. I've been cleaning sensors on various cameras using PecPads and Eclipse since the D100 first came out. So far everything's worked just fine in spite of warnings from camera manufacturers that the world as we know it will end if I touch the sensor filter with ANYTHING! But now that we're getting more complicated sensor filters it's way past time for Nikon, Canon, Leica -- all of them to get off their high horses and give us all some straight, official information about cleaning their sensors. It's a subject they really want to stay away from, but we shouldn't let them do that. They can't have it both ways: "Here's a fine, professional camera that you can use in dust storms, but you'd better not ever touch the sensor filter." That's ridiculous. Either it's a camera whose sensor you can clean or it's not a "professional" camera, unless they come up with a way to insure dust never can get on the sensor.