Isn't it supposed to be changed at the periodic CLA?
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: E1/300 who dusts the tape then
>
> Omigosh. Someone is asking a logical question about this "feature".
>
> Dust, completely buoyed by the air, floats into your mirror chamber and
> attaches itself to your sensor, everything else. Somehow you are
> expected to believe that shaking the sensor causes the all but
> weightless dust, which floated in, to fall heavily through the bouyant
> air in the chamber and stick to the tape in the bottom. Somehow you are
> supposed to believe that whipping around the sensor has no effect on
> the air in the mirror box and does not stir up the dust that is
> clinging to surfaces everywhere while shaking it loose from the surface
> of preference. Even though anyone who cleans a sensor finds that the
> specks he can see in his test picture are difficult to completely
> remove because they are glued tight, an Oly owner has to believe that
> this magically does not happen in an E-1 mirror box. And the magic tape
> does not fill up or have to be replaced. Psst. If Oly does not have an
> instruction in the manual for having the tape tested and replaced on a
> regular basis, it doesn't work.
>
> Sorry. Marketing hype is bad enough, but to modify a design so you can
> have the hype is just infuriating and just as dishonest as saying that
> OM lenses will not work on a digital camera. Saying that 4/3 design
> would result in more compact design than other DLSRs with larger
> sensors was just a little white lie by comparison. Hmmm. I wonder if
> Oly tested the long term effects of sensor vibration on the camera
> circuitry?
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA
> On Sep 29, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Piers:
>>
>> I think that the E1 has a delumper for dust on the sensor, the 300 may
>> have
>> a few less blades as a cost reduction.
>> My question would be, 'So the delumper removes dust which collects
>> underneath on a sticky tape- how easy is it to clean the tape?'
>
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