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Dust alert system on K5IIs

Started Oct 14, 2019 | Discussions thread
andrew britten Senior Member • Posts: 1,495
Re: Dust alert system on K5IIs
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puttin wrote:

Oiche wrote:

puttin wrote:

This is a handy feature to see the dust on the sensor. Odd that it's not on my K1 II since it is a top end camera.

Not a necessary feature as all you have to do is point the camera at a frame wide bright surface, for example, the sky overcast or blue and select f16 or the like to show up anything stuck so the sensor.

That's what I normally do but thought the dust alert was a handy feature. I had a K3 but don't recall if it had that.

The K3 does have it, but can give spurious results. I believe this what made them stop featuring it.

From personal experience it is a reasonable guide, but lacks accuracy from cleaning to cleaning.

AB

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