06-11-2012, 09:01 AM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1339346906' post='18828']
Hi,
I noticed this morning that I have a piece of dust caked to filters in front of the sensor of my E-P1, which affects image quality from f/7.1 in critical images. With a hurricane blower I could remove some of the dust pieces, but the worst offender is still solidly caked to the filter assembly <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Anyone experience on what to do?
Some of the products seem to come in sizes for 1x, 1.3x and 1.6x sensors. I understand in that terminology the µFT is a 2.0x sensor.
Thanks in advance
Joachim
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Joachim, I had to clean mine once.
What I did was a wet cleaning (it was mostly stains, rather than dust or particles) using one of the sensor swab I had for my canon aps-c camera. The catch is that it's too wide for it to be used in horizontal motion on the smaller m43 sensor. So I used it vertically rather than horizontally. That way, I had to swipe at least twice to cover the surface (normally it's designed to cover the surface in one swip forth, one swipe back) but anyway I never managed to do it with only one trial on my canon and I always ended up using 6-7 swabs (you're not supposed to wipe back and forth too many times with the same swab, hence me using many of them). Wet cleaning with swabs is a rather annoying exercise but not as bad as it seems. You do need to be on a good day to perform it <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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But I remember seeing on that swab brand that 43 sensors owners were recommended to use APS-H swabs but current website doesn't do so anymore (Looking at sizes it wouldn't fit so maybe I made that up?) and recommends the same size as APS-C. http://www.photosol.com/store/pc/viewCon...p?idpage=1
hope this helps !
Hi,
I noticed this morning that I have a piece of dust caked to filters in front of the sensor of my E-P1, which affects image quality from f/7.1 in critical images. With a hurricane blower I could remove some of the dust pieces, but the worst offender is still solidly caked to the filter assembly <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />Anyone experience on what to do?
Some of the products seem to come in sizes for 1x, 1.3x and 1.6x sensors. I understand in that terminology the µFT is a 2.0x sensor.
Thanks in advance
Joachim
[/quote]
Joachim, I had to clean mine once.
What I did was a wet cleaning (it was mostly stains, rather than dust or particles) using one of the sensor swab I had for my canon aps-c camera. The catch is that it's too wide for it to be used in horizontal motion on the smaller m43 sensor. So I used it vertically rather than horizontally. That way, I had to swipe at least twice to cover the surface (normally it's designed to cover the surface in one swip forth, one swipe back) but anyway I never managed to do it with only one trial on my canon and I always ended up using 6-7 swabs (you're not supposed to wipe back and forth too many times with the same swab, hence me using many of them). Wet cleaning with swabs is a rather annoying exercise but not as bad as it seems. You do need to be on a good day to perform it <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />But I remember seeing on that swab brand that 43 sensors owners were recommended to use APS-H swabs but current website doesn't do so anymore (Looking at sizes it wouldn't fit so maybe I made that up?) and recommends the same size as APS-C. http://www.photosol.com/store/pc/viewCon...p?idpage=1
hope this helps !