Sensor Dust!!!

Using a dSLR has many consequences, the main one being the price of the body. And of course the price of lenses, packs, flashes, accessories, etc. The other problem dSLR users face, as I have only just learned, is sensor dust.

Sensor dust is obviously, dust particles that stick onto your sensor, thus the name. This occurs during the changing of lenses, and also if the rear of your lens isn’t clean, and when the sensor is started up, it has an electrostatic charge, which will get the dust to stick onto it. Until it gets wiped out (or blown, in this case), that is. I’ve got a whole lot of them…

How do you detect sensor dust? Get a white piece of paper, set your camera to maybe aperture priority, set exposure compensation up bu 0.7 or 1, then fire the shutter, shaking the camera at the same time. Shaking the camera will not blur out the dust, as it is directly on the light sensor. Instead, it’ll be clearer.

Here’s a look at my results.

I thought “what the fish!” at this point already.

Some aren’t very visible due to resizing, but I tell you, it’s there.

Could be going to Amcorp Mall tomorrow to send in my dad’s old Canon AE-1 Program 35mm Mechanical SLR tomorrow to J-One, it’s in need of refurbishing and cleaning up. However, if it has a power source, it still starts up perfectly So, ok, if I do go, I’ll ask uncle Jason from J-One to maybe blow (my blower isn’t powerful enough) or (if he has the sensor brush), give my sensor a swipe or two. And maybe I’ll buy my own blower.

Dammit, I hate dust.