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Willie
 

Reoccuring Spot in my photos


 
 
Hello,
I have a new Canon 20d and I am noticing a spot in my photos.
I've noticed that they show up with both of my lens'. It's not the lens.

What can I do to reomove that spot.

Thanks in advance!


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January 21, 2005

 

Kenneth -. Rush
  There is an article on imager cleaning in Michael Reichman's website www.luminous-landscape.com. He recomends a product from Visible Dust, a Canadian company, to clean your imager chip. I bought their product and it works well. I had a problem with dust inside the protective cover over the imager chip in my D60. Only Canon can fix that.

Ken Rush


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February 09, 2005

 

Kevin Burns
  If the pixels are white while the picture is colorful and the square white spots are at the same spot on different photos then that means the CCD is at fault. I bought a HP and had the same type of problem with about 3 cameras they sent me. I gave up and bought another brand of camera.
Lint on the lens will also do almost the same thing. I am sure your lens has been cleaned.
Blow the image up and clone the spot.


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February 13, 2005

 

Sally McAtee
  I read this recently on a website to determine if you have dust on your sensor: Do you have dust on your DSLR sensor? Have you seen any dark spots on your images. If the answer is no, your best course of action may be to ignore the rest of this article and be happy. If you have a Nikon Digital SLR or another manufacturer, then sooner or later you will probably feel the urge to clean the sensor. If you can't resist the urge, read on.

If you don't know if your sensor is clean and want to check, here is how to do it. Put a lens on your camera, set focus to infinity, set exposure compensation to +1, set the aperture to its smallest value (largest number), at least f22, f32 if you have it. Now hold the camera in front a uniformly illuminated target and take a shot. Look at the image. Do you see dark spots? If so you have dust. At wider apertures the dust specs will be much less visible. At f11 they may be very faint and at f8 or wider apertures they may be undetectable.

Now comes the problem. If you're the sort of person who looked for dust, you're likely the sort of person who will be troubled by dust and want to remove it, even if you'd never seen it until you actually looked for it. This could get you into a lot of trouble.


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February 15, 2005

 

Terry R. Hatfield
  And I Might Add To Sally's Comment,
If You See Dark Spots In The Image (ie Top Left Of Frame)And Are Ambitious Enough To Clean Them, Its Really In The Opposite Corner When Looking Through The Lens Mount:-)


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February 16, 2005

 

Kevin Burns
  What color are the spots. Where are they?


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February 16, 2005

 
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