D600 dust/oil. Everybody is running around with their hair on fire. Is there really an issue?

Duncan C wrote:

I got a D600 for Christmas. I also have a D200, and before that a D1X.

I got used to dust with the previous bodies. You get dust, you blow it off, you keep shooting. Eventually you get stubborn dust that a blower won't remove, so you get some eclipse fluid and sensor swabs and do a wet cleaning. Problem solved. Then later you get more dust, and the cycle begins again.

It seems to me that dust on the sensor is natural and unavoidable with a DSLR. Any time you have a mirror box that's exposed to outside air, it's going to get dust. Zoom lenses act like bellows, pumping air in and out, so you don't even need to take the lens off to get dust.

From where I sit, this seems like a tempest in a teapot. Is the D600 really demonstrably worse than other DSLRs with dust? And is there a confirmed, documented oil issue, or is that internet hysteria? Seems a lot like the latter to me.

After reading all the horror stories I did an out-of-focus test shot of my gray card at f/22, and sure enough I've got dust. I have yet to see that dust in normal shooting however.

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