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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 149535" data-attributes="member: 3903">What people have to remember is that the modern sensor is an electro-magnetic charged surface. It is literally a dust magnet. Now the camera lens combination is in no way an air tight component. So, as you all know, dust gets in wherever there is air movement. The movement of the mirror going up and down creates an air depression that sucks the dust in close to the sensor. There is simply no way to avoid it. Now, for most of the normal shooting situations, this dust can't be seen when you use apertures around f8-11 or larger. They do appear around f16. The other time they show most is when you do HDR. Then they'll show like a sore thumb because of the extra processing that's being done.For those of you who are wise enough (old) and that have worked with enlarging 35mm negatives in the darkroom, you must remember the care and pain it used to be to remove all dust from the negative before enlarging, or the retouching techniques that were available in those days. To me, sensor cleaning today is no worse than was the dust issues in the old days. And the digital retouching available today can cure most of these little imperfections.Those of you who thought of buying a D600 that got scared by this condition exposed on the net are missing all the great performance of this superb camera IMO.</blockquote>