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The Solution to the Dirty Sony Sensor That Plagues Your Camera

It's a common problem.

For more stories like this, please subscribe to The Phoblographer. There are lots of fantastic things about Sony cameras. But one of the biggest flaws they all have is build quality. Do they work in the rain? Sure. Do they get dusty? Oh yeah. Unfortunately, it’s a problem with lots of Sony cameras. We just got done reviewing a few lenses on Sony bodies, and we ran into lots of dust issues. And…

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Still Editing Tips That Every Photographer Should Know

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Sensor cleaning

A couple of weeks ago I was reading a blog post by Moose Peterson, http://www.moosepeterson.com, about cleaning your camera’s sensor. Within just a couple days of that, I must have changed lens when there was a lot of dust in the air because I started noticing a whole lot of dust bunnies (sensor dust) in my images. I thought I would ignore them and just clean them up in post, but after having…

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Recap: Cleaning your sensor

Today I noticed that the sensor of my D610 has quite some dust on it. Usually you don’t see the specks but in darker areas the dust suddenly gets visible. A good method for checking the sensor’s cleanness is to shoot something with not too much texture and underexpose violently. In well-lit images the dust seems to be “overridden” by the brightness of the surrounding pixels, but once the image…

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Chinese Government Halts Nikon D600 Sales After Sensor Dust/Oil Issues Get a National TV News Reveal

Nikon has a lot of egg on its face thanks to the dust and oil issues plaguing the D600’s sensor. While the Japanese company took care of the issue with recalls and even a new replacement D610, it seems the D600 was still a problem in China. Now the Chinese government has ordered a complete stop on D600 sales after a nationally televised exposé revealed the defective nature of the camera.

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Some things *I* learned about photography - Pt.24

44. There's dust in the wind and about everywhere else While doing some internet-research on landscape photography for my trip to Greece, I stumbled upon various posts about sensor-dust and how to get rid of it.

Especially with landscape-photography, sensor dust seems to be a big issue, because you very often use small apertures ( = big f-stop numbers) and with those, the dust becomes visible. This is due to a "sharper beam of light" with smaller iris-openings. The visible dust is not the dust itself, but the shadow of the dust, that is lying on the coating of the sensor. I never experienced problems with sensor dust yet, so I was really astounded to read, how big this issue obviously seems to be.

To be very honest, I'm not too careful, when it comes to changing lenses on my DSLR. I even changed lenses numerous times during my safari in quite dusty Tsavo East Nationalpark. And changing lenses is the main reason, why dust gets into the camera (another reason are zoom-lenses, that are not completely air-tight).

So I grabbed my camera and did some tests with f22 and higher

This is a picture shot at f32 of the clear blue sky. The dark spots you see are actually dust on the sensor.

To see it more clearly, I "enhanced" it by increasing the contrast

Why didn't I realize this enormous amount of dirt on my sensor?

The answer is easy: Because I almost never shoot with the aperture that much closed. I played around a bit and at f10 and lower, the dust wasn't visible at all.

So, how to get rid of the dust? The built-in sensor cleaning of (newer) DSLRs do quite a good job, but nevertheless one of the (few) must-have accessories IMHO is a rocket-blower (or similar), to blow the dust off the sensor. There are also liquid sensor cleaners, but I haven't tried them yet. Of course you can also give your camera to a service, where it gets professionally cleaned as well, which I think I might do in not too far future.