On 4/9/2012 1:52 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I wouldn't worry too much about hurting the sensor glass. As long as you
> don't use any fluids which strip the coating off, you'll be OK. What is
> more troublesome, however, is how much other crud is inside the mirror
> chamber which Moose mentioned.
>
> One thing that I find entertaining is how much stuff ends up on the sensor
> when it is hidden behind a shutter curtain for all but milliseconds at a
> time. What this points to is that the shutter curtain itself is probably
> the cause of a lot of this. If the curtain isn't repelling dust, then it
> sticks to the curtain. When the picture is taken the dust falls off and is
> then attracted to the generally statically charged sensor.
>
> The m43 cameras have the sensor hanging out in the open all but for a few
> milliseconds at a time.
The BIG difference is no mirror, Can you imagine the air currents the mirror
that takes up most of the space flying up
and down causes? When the SLR shutter opens, the mirror has just started a
local hurricane-tornado combination.
Windy Moose
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