Really, no big frightening deal.
Today got my Eclipse. Got my Pec-pads. Got my pap smear brush(see photo).
Had a nice glass of Shiraz.
I scotch-taped out a sensor sized rectangle on a 77mm L37c to practice.
The pap smear brush, flexible plastic bristles, was cut with toenail clippers to 15mm wide to fit sensor.
Pec-pads ripped in half to be uncumbersome.
Biggest mistake, I'm told is too much methanol so I used a big drop then blotted the prepared brush on a pristine pec-pad a couple of times to absorb excess.
First of all...I cleaned the sensor last week with something so foolish as to not ever be told, ever.(Well, enough Shiraz I might tell.) My sensor was thoroughly mucked up, streaked and clumped. Yech!
One thing of note...the pristine pec-pad and scant Eclipse invariably leaves residue on the L37c...the setup's not as pristine as we all want to believe...but apparently it's adequate. Surprising to me really. Makes me want to go to a pharmacy and get some pure methanol even though I was ridiculed for the concept.
I used manual set at 25 seconds to clean. The whole swabbing operation doesn't take 6 to 8 seconds each time unless you are a klutz.
First cleaning was my trusty D2H. First time anything other than canned air from Costco(shut-up...done it a thousand times) ever touched the sensor. 31,000 shots...it really didn't need cleaning anyway. It is now pristine new. Micro-bunnies vanished.
Photoshop auto levels will bring out the nano-bunnies...try it if you dare.
Took 4 shots of my white ceiling with 85mmf1.4 at f16.
Photoshop auto levels is frighteningly revealing of sensor dust.
First one filthy...ech...pooy...ugh.
Second after air spritz form the fetal nose sucker(photo).
Third shot after pec-padded Eclipse. Voila...95% clean.
Fourth shot after new pec-pad/Eclipse pass...gasp...factory virginal pristine!
Call me jaded. Call me foolish. I laugh in the face of danger. On a daily basis I cut through thick muscular lower uterine walls with a scalpel millimeters from fetal faces. I'd rather chunk my D2X out the window on the freeway than slice a neonatal cornea so i guess I live on some bizarre caffeine fueled edge routinely.
Sensor cleaning is no BFD.
It is somewhat of an adrenaline rush the first time admittedly.
Good night all.
Today got my Eclipse. Got my Pec-pads. Got my pap smear brush(see photo).
Had a nice glass of Shiraz.
I scotch-taped out a sensor sized rectangle on a 77mm L37c to practice.
The pap smear brush, flexible plastic bristles, was cut with toenail clippers to 15mm wide to fit sensor.
Pec-pads ripped in half to be uncumbersome.
Biggest mistake, I'm told is too much methanol so I used a big drop then blotted the prepared brush on a pristine pec-pad a couple of times to absorb excess.
First of all...I cleaned the sensor last week with something so foolish as to not ever be told, ever.(Well, enough Shiraz I might tell.) My sensor was thoroughly mucked up, streaked and clumped. Yech!
One thing of note...the pristine pec-pad and scant Eclipse invariably leaves residue on the L37c...the setup's not as pristine as we all want to believe...but apparently it's adequate. Surprising to me really. Makes me want to go to a pharmacy and get some pure methanol even though I was ridiculed for the concept.
I used manual set at 25 seconds to clean. The whole swabbing operation doesn't take 6 to 8 seconds each time unless you are a klutz.
First cleaning was my trusty D2H. First time anything other than canned air from Costco(shut-up...done it a thousand times) ever touched the sensor. 31,000 shots...it really didn't need cleaning anyway. It is now pristine new. Micro-bunnies vanished.
Photoshop auto levels will bring out the nano-bunnies...try it if you dare.
Took 4 shots of my white ceiling with 85mmf1.4 at f16.
Photoshop auto levels is frighteningly revealing of sensor dust.
First one filthy...ech...pooy...ugh.
Second after air spritz form the fetal nose sucker(photo).
Third shot after pec-padded Eclipse. Voila...95% clean.
Fourth shot after new pec-pad/Eclipse pass...gasp...factory virginal pristine!
Call me jaded. Call me foolish. I laugh in the face of danger. On a daily basis I cut through thick muscular lower uterine walls with a scalpel millimeters from fetal faces. I'd rather chunk my D2X out the window on the freeway than slice a neonatal cornea so i guess I live on some bizarre caffeine fueled edge routinely.
Sensor cleaning is no BFD.
It is somewhat of an adrenaline rush the first time admittedly.
Good night all.
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