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Understanding how to clean sensor dust

Understanding how to clean sensor dust

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Understanding how to clean sensor dust

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- The great thing about a camera with interchangeable lenses is that, you can change the lenses, so you've got a lot of flexibility about lens choice for the focal lengths that you want, zooms versus prime, image quality, weight, size, all that stuff. One of the downsides to a camera with interchangeable lenses is that you can take the lens off, and when you do that, there is a chance that dust will get inside the sensor and leave spots all over your image. Spots that look like these. This is one particular kind of dust, there are many kinds, and we're gonna talk about that. But if you're seeing these kinds of spots on your images, there's a very good chance you've got a dust problem. A lot of people think, "Oh, my lens needs to be cleaned." Most of the time, if there's something on the end of your lens, you're focusing past it and it's not visible. One of the ways you can easily tell if you've got a sensor dust…

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