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Dust on my sensor? Please advice

Started Jan 4, 2015 | Questions thread
MOD BobsYourUncle Veteran Member • Posts: 8,944
Re: Dust on my sensor? Please advice
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Great Photo btw.

The spots appear to be dust or oil spots visible at the high aperture you used.  Having owned a D3, D3x, and a D600, I have become very familiar with sensor cleaning.

First try a blower of sorts.  Canned propellant air is usually not a good idea for first experiences.  If that doesn't work you have a few choices if you wish to go further yourself or you could spend some $$$ at a local camera dealer and have them do it.

If you try it yourself it seems to be a scary task at first but with a little experience it becomes second nature.  Though I use products from the following company they are not the only ones who supply products for dry and wet cleaning:

Copper Hill

Visible Dust also has some good products to clean sensors.  A few months back I got a real dark eyelash-piece of dust on my X-T1 sensor and no matter what I used it wouldn't come off.  Turned out it was a piece of debris that somehow got dislodged from inside the camera and situated itself between the sensor glass and the sensor.  Fuji repair fixed it but my issue is a rare occurrence.

Give the "blower" a try first then explore your options.  As some posters have said, dust and dirt are par for the course on interchangeable lens cameras.

Good Luck,

Bob

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