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Equipment & Techniques => Mirrorless Cameras => Topic started by: Alan Smallbone on January 09, 2014, 12:15:38 pm

Title: A7R sensor scratches
Post by: Alan Smallbone on January 09, 2014, 12:15:38 pm
Interesting post and pictures by Roger Cicala at lensrentals.com, about their experience so far...
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1265653

Not bashing the A7R or anything, I just found it interesting....

Alan
Title: Re: A7R sensor scratches
Post by: Telecaster on January 09, 2014, 03:06:26 pm
A rental customer sneezing on a sensor?! There's genius in action...

-Dave-
Title: Re: A7R sensor scratches
Post by: BJL on January 09, 2014, 07:42:54 pm
Interesting post and pictures by Roger Cicala at lensrentals.com, about their experience so far...
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1265653
Two facts got my attention: (1) only with the A7R not the A7, despite a roughly equal number of rentals (2) all the renters who returned the sensor scratched acknowledged having wet-cleaned the sensor.

The leads me to speculate that the damage was due to IQOCs(*) who clean the sensor every darn time they change lenses.


* Image Quality Obsessive-Compulsives.
Title: Re: A7R sensor scratches
Post by: Alan Smallbone on January 10, 2014, 12:41:22 am
yes kind of interesting bits of facts.

Alan
Title: Re: A7R sensor scratches
Post by: scooby70 on January 10, 2014, 10:08:11 am
Interesting, but I'm willing to believe it's just user abuse until told otherwise.

Despite a lot of lens changes with my A7 I've only had a few tiny dust spots and both were sorted with the camera clean or a rocket and I've not had to wet clean yet.

My 5D on the other hand needed a wet clean just about every time I used it, even if I didn't change lenses.