Imagesensor cleaning kit - Pentax

Has anyone used the dedicated Pentax sensor cleaning
kit?

Is it worth the $35 and shipping.

-Brendan



 
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On 2/24/07 2:58 AM, "Brendan MacRae",
<brendanmacrae1969yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anyone used the dedicated Pentax sensor cleaning
> kit?
> 
> Is it worth the $35 and shipping.

I have had no chance of using this, but I was looking for it
here.
There have been a few reports of actual use in Japan and
they are all
reporting it works well.  But they equally reporting that
the price is a bit
steep .

It is apparently made of silicon rubber (or something, but
don't take my
word) which is just sticky enough to lift dust/specks which
cannot be shaken
off by usual DR motion.  The tip is square, covering the
area of 1/4 or 1/6
of sensor (actually low pass filter) size.  So if you go
over the surface
systematically 4 times (or 6 times, I do not remember
which), you can cover
the whole area.

Since Pentax Service Centres (at least in Japan) are using
this when users
bring their camera in, I suppose it is another proof that it
works.  In
fact, I understand that Pentax created this for their own
use first.

As I said, price is rather .......
But I suppose it is a matter of cost vs benefit.
As for me, so far, conventional puffing method has been
sufficient but you
never know when you need "sticky lift" to get rid
of stubborn dust  When
you need it, you need it.

Ken


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In the latest issue of Chasseur d'Images, they test the
effectiveness
of the Antidust from different vendors. Basically their
conclusion is:
it doesn't work too well except for Olympus.
All the others work to some extend but a lot less effective
then Olympus.

Of course one can wonder how to really test this kind of
stuff.

2007/2/24, K.Takeshita <marineronegmail.com>:
> On 2/24/07 2:58 AM, "Brendan MacRae",
<brendanmacrae1969yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used the dedicated Pentax sensor
cleaning
> > kit?
> >
> > Is it worth the $35 and shipping.
>
> I have had no chance of using this, but I was looking
for it here.
> There have been a few reports of actual use in Japan
and they are all
> reporting it works well.  But they equally reporting
that the price is a bit
> steep .
>
> It is apparently made of silicon rubber (or something,
but don't take my
> word) which is just sticky enough to lift dust/specks
which cannot be shaken
> off by usual DR motion.  The tip is square, covering
the area of 1/4 or 1/6
> of sensor (actually low pass filter) size.  So if you
go over the surface
> systematically 4 times (or 6 times, I do not remember
which), you can cover
> the whole area.
>
> Since Pentax Service Centres (at least in Japan) are
using this when users
> bring their camera in, I suppose it is another proof
that it works.  In
> fact, I understand that Pentax created this for their
own use first.
>
> As I said, price is rather .......
> But I suppose it is a matter of cost vs benefit.
> As for me, so far, conventional puffing method has been
sufficient but you
> never know when you need "sticky lift" to get
rid of stubborn dust  When
> you need it, you need it.
>
> Ken
>
>
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Brendan - can you give me the URL of where you are sourcing
this from - I
have not found it yet (Haven't done a concentrated search
though).

I want one as it seems to be the sensible solution to the
need for a backup
to a blower for the immovable specks (only one tiny one
after 3 months).

Rod

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Has anyone used the dedicated Pentax sensor cleaning
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Is it worth the $35 and shipping.

-Brendan
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