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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: ph_anto on October 06, 2009, 03:12:05 pm

Title: H3D & dust
Post by: ph_anto on October 06, 2009, 03:12:05 pm

i'm leaving for a trip to the southwest,do you have any suggestion to help to avoid dust entering the sensor area?

Thanks for help me.

Title: H3D & dust
Post by: Dick Roadnight on October 06, 2009, 04:47:32 pm

Quote from: ph_anto

i'm leaving for a trip to the southwest, do you have any suggestion to help to avoid dust entering the sensor area?

Thanks for help me.

Dust is not normally a problem in Devon and Cornwall!

Title: H3D & dust
Post by: Chris Livsey on October 06, 2009, 05:10:42 pm

Quote from: ph_anto

i'm leaving for a trip to the southwest,do you have any suggestion to help to avoid dust entering the sensor area?

Thanks for help me.

Avoid changing lenses, if you do point the body down, don't hold it up to collect dust like a cup.
This advice also applies to the South East and North West BTW  

Title: H3D & dust
Post by: Eurotographer on October 06, 2009, 11:09:10 pm

Quote from: Chris Livsey

Avoid changing lenses, if you do point the body down, don't hold it up to collect dust like a cup.
This advice also applies to the South East and North West BTW  

In the North East we use separate bodies with each lens