gavin wrote:
I have 2 D3's and find them only slightly worse than the D2's (I have 11) I use a sensor brush at least once a week on all my stuff, and find not problems. We take an average of 500,000 images per body in a 26 week ski season so I am constantly cleaning all my bodies.
Also, as with other sport guys we rearly shoot wide open so the problem is not as bad as some.
Gav
WOW!!!
You have 13 cameras and average 500,000 per body in 26 weeks!
Holy cow but that works out to 6.5 million images!!
And you must be replacing shutters every other week....
I've a Canon 1dsIII and the dust removal system seems to work fine....on dust
that is. It will not remove oil or grease. Before this I had a canon 1ds2 and as
many will know, it did not have a dust removal system. You had to clean using
one of the many cleaning systems on the market. This was an easy enough task, but heck, the corners were a pain to clean. The cleaning swab would work very
well but tended to drag dust into the corners, or more precisel, the edges
The reason I'm mentioning this is that I imagine the D3 would present the same problem by virtue of it's FF size? It is because of this annoying dust problem, that I'm slightly put off buying the D3 and look upon the lack of a dust cleaning system on the D3 as a serious omission. You can call such a system gimmicky, but believe me, it works great on Canon's...it also works great on the D300....it will probably work equally great on the forthcoming D700.
nivenu wrote:
I've a Canon 1dsIII and the dust removal system seems to work fine....on dust
that is. It will not remove oil or grease. Before this I had a canon 1ds2 and as
many will know, it did not have a dust removal system. You had to clean using
one of the many cleaning systems on the market. This was an easy enough task, but heck, the corners were a pain to clean. The cleaning swab would work very
well but tended to drag dust into the corners, or more precisel, the edges
The reason I'm mentioning this is that I imagine the D3 would present the same problem by virtue of it's FF size? It is because of this annoying dust problem, that I'm slightly put off buying the D3 and look upon the lack of a dust cleaning system on the D3 as a serious omission. You can call such a system gimmicky, but believe me, it works great on Canon's...it also works great on the D300....it will probably work equally great on the forthcoming D700.
I have cleaned the sensor with a blower twice for ~2000 shots so far.
No wet cleaning' yet.
After you have owned it a little longer, shoot the sky at f22. Most likely your sensor will have gunk on it and a blower won't clean the crap from the sensor. No problem is you always shoot wide open or nearly wide open.
James R has it, you see with a larger sensor you will stop down more and so see the dust and hence the conclusion it attracts more dust, which it doesn't, I bet in a properly carried out experiment it would get the same as a D2X sensor per unit area.
