You are all so very helpful here.
Thank you very much.

Niklas

Thanks a lot.
I will do that next time I get the chance.
It is not dust, though, that worries me.
It's stains on the sensor from oil and other particles.

Niklas

A week ago or more I had some heavy dust issues in my K20D.
It was not able to eliminate with the build in dust removal shake function through the menu.

I spend all afternoon, with the remidies at hand, trying to solve this.
I used a brush and airball with marten hair (I think).
My magnifier for looking in was an 8X magnifier as the one used for negatives on a lightboard.
I also had had a magnifier for when repairing watches.

Since the dust issue stayed there, even though moving from one area to another on the sensor, in the end I grabbed something I should never have done, A handheld battery driven compressor.

Auch.
It removed the dust but small particles of oil was blown out together with the air and they were now stuck on the sensor.

So I left my camera on the shelf and went on eBay and other places ordering Eclipse E2, Sensor Swab 2, Giottos Rocket Air Blower and some Pentax original cleaning thing working as a sticky thing to remove known spots on the sensor.

To day I got the Eclipse E2 and Sensor Swabs.
So I started cleaning sensor.
And it obviously helped.

Inspection is done by photographing a clear blue sky and go 100% on a good CRT screen.
Cleaning were done in 3 tempi with inspection in between.
Less and less spots occured on the clear blue sky photos.
Every inspection consisted of 2-3 photos of different parts of the sky without taking off the lens.
Last inspection today showed a completely spotless sky on the first shooting.
However, on second photo I found a spot on the sky that could look like dirt/oil.

My Question is:
If inspection photo #1 is spotless and inspection photo #2 have a spot, will this spot be some element on the sky, like a very unsharp bird or insect?

Or am I doing this all wrong?

Niklas

I have a battery compressor for fighting dust.

Niklas

I am using an Epson flatbed scanner with a film lid extra equipment for the job of scanning transparent photo material.

It goes 12800 dpi and takes up 12x12 in size.
I can do positive and negative in colour and black and white.
And yes, I actually do have some B/W positive dias.

I believe Epson still makes some flatbed scanners doing this job fine.
But I think they limited resolution to ~9600 dpi.

It's a big task and sometimes I go 2-4 days in a row.
I wonder if I will be done.

Niklas

Give Hybrid or FET Amplifiers a chance as well.
Or match a Transistor Preamplifier with a Tube/Valve power amplifier (or vice versa).

Just my 5¢ on this subject.

Niklas

white will make me make no mistakes grapping the right body.

Niklas

Yellow/blue for swedes and red/white for danes.
i like the idea.
Will consider it as a spare body.

Niklas

I like this photo a lot.

I agrre with the criticism from thoughton and can ad up that I see a little (what is it called) "fringing" kind of a light sphere on the left side of the sculpture.
Maybe a little more sensitivity would bring out a few more wanted details and get the sky closer to natural.

Niklas

I have the MZ-10 and I have to admit that it's never in use anymore.
It only carries a lens for the lack of lens- and camera hoods.

Niklas