D600 OIL/DUST Report at 12,720 Shutter Count

I totally agree; the arrogance from those that obviously just shoot a few photos here and there and claim that 'there is no hassle at all cleaning the sensor after a few hundred shots' is mind-numbing. There are lots of people that shoot hundreds of photos - or more - in a single day.

A couple of years ago I had a gig that involved photographing all home matches for a handball team for use in their monthly club magazine and on their website.

I easily shot 1000+ exposures during a single match (2x30 minutes of play + a 10 minute break where I usually photographed people that got interviewed and so on) and people on this site say that say that is would be totally acceptable that I would have to take time to wet clean my sensor at least once, most likely twice, during those 70 minutes where I rarely had a minute where nothing happened???

Gimme a break.

Luckily I used my trusty D300s at that time - which never ever needed a single wet cleaning to remove dust/debries during the more than 70.000 exposures I used it for.

I have no problem cleaning my sensor once in a while, but when a freshly cleaned and spotless sensor reverts to being 10x as dirty after a few hundred exposures as any of my other DSLRs have ever been after tens of thousands of exposures something is surely very very wrong.