Re: film camera with digital lens

nicholas wrote:
"frederick" <lost@xxxxxxx> wrote in message >

Get over it. Use the D80 and clean dust of the sensor as required. At
least you can check occasionally in the field.
The Sigma 12-24 is a 35mm format lens. Results will be as you see in the viewfinder (for composition).
Dust can also affect the result with film, either by sitting on the film emulsion surface, or by scratching the emulsion when you advance the film. In nearly 40 years of photography, I've had far more % of "failures" with film than with digital - scratches, light-leaky 35mm cassettes, gnarled sprocket holes, crappy developing, etc. Changing a lens in the field with digital is much less fraught with hazard than changing a 35mm film in the field.
In 5 years of digital, I've had one or two shots lost due to card failure, but never had dust causing a problem which couldn't be fixed easily in PP.

Cleaning the sensor depends on the dust. Some types of dust seem to be biological in origin and leave a stain on the sensor. That happened last year and the sensor cleaning kit with swabs/solvent that I carried would'nt remove them. I can't carry the pressured can of air for my favourite cleaning tool - Green Clean Vacuum Power - on board a plane.

I must have wet-cleaned Nikon DSLR sensors dozens of times - for my cameras, and other people too scared to do it themselves. It's easy. I suspect that the "biological origin" dust might be mainly sticky pollens. Even they are easy to remove with wet cleaning. I carry a small kit for that in my camera bag.
If the sensor was in need of a clean requiring swabs then I would not attempt it myself again. Three swabs cost about £15 and all three would probably be needed to do a decent clean. Sending the camera to Nikon costs around £25 and they are responsible for damage to the sensor. The problem is being without camera for a month.

My total cleaning kit cost about £6. A pack of 100 pec pads, a 50ml bottle of pure isopropynol, and a home made "wand". It works perfectly. I have at least 80 pec pads and most of the bottle of alcohol left after 4 years, so it should last me many more years. If you paid big money, then you were suckered.

Not bothered about a bit of dust on the film, I scan it myself anyway and its easy, free and risk proof to remove marks.

It's easy, free, and risk proof to remove dust marks from dslr images!


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