If you like my Photography Tips please click LIKE & SHARE, Thank you to those who are supporting me by sharing these tips Photography Tip #30 Dirt in Sensor If you see spots and blotches appear on all your images in exactly the same position, your sensor is dirty. If you are always shooting with big apertures, say F2.8 or F5.6 you may not know you have them and most likely you wont see them on you images. its when you shoot that landscape and you set your aperture to F11 or F16 or F22. then Walla... Houston we have a problem!!!!!!! To test if your sensor has spots, focus on a building or tree, then angle your lens to only capture blue skies. To show the best results of dirt use a wide angle lens (focal length 50mm or smaller) and the smallest aperture, say F22. You can shoot in ether in manual or Aperture. If you see marks or dots in the image taken, you’ve got dust on your camera’s image sensor. Tips for decreasing the likelihood of it: * Avoid changing lenses in risky environments (where there is wind, water, dust etc) – pick a lens and try to stick with it. * Turn camera off before changing lenses. On some cameras the sensor has an electric charge that will actually attract dust to it like a magnet. * Hold camera upside down (with the opening facing down) when changing lenses – it’s impossible for dust to fall into your camera if it’s upside down (unless there is wind that blows it up into it). * Have your lens ready when you’re changing lenses (be prepared and have your new lens ready to attach so that your camera is open for as short a time as possible). * Check your lenses for dust before attaching them – have a blower that you can get any specs off your lens with. If you have spots in your sensor, try first to blow it out with a dust blower cleaner. If it does not go away then take it to a camera shop to have it clean by a professional. The equipment is too expensive to try to clean it yourself. Its good practice if you change lenses a lot to every month blow air in the cage with a dust blower Cleaner, just do it indoors were is safe of wind or dust. You can buy them on Ebay for lest that $6.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:43:06 +0000
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