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Andrew Laverghetta
 

dust on some photos


Hey! I had a small problem with a piece of dust yesterday and was wondering where the dust was. When I used a large aperture like 4.0 the dust was really blurry but when I was outside taking some macro pictures with smaller apertures, it was pretty focused. I didn't notice the dust until I looked over the pictures more when I got back inside. What will dust look like if it's on the sensor? Will it always appear focused? I'm hoping that if I tend to use the lens wide open that there won't be the chance for dust to be there but out of focus, causing an important picture at a small aperture to be ruined. Could there just be dust on the lens? I used the close-up filters for my macro stuff but the dust was on pictures without the filters had the dust too, and in the same spot on the pictures. After I noticed this I got my little blower and set to sensor clean and tipped it upside down and use the blower a little bit, and took some pictures of plain white things outside at many different apertures and it lookes like I got it off somehow. What do you think?


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May 09, 2005

 
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  dust check is take a picture of white wall at smallest apeture and look for small dark spots.
what's seen at smallest apeture may not be seen at all at anything bigger.


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