New Nikon D610. Is this amount of sensor dirt normal?

[hrphotography]

on second month, u try ur best to return it back to seller, which most likely will not be possible.
then unfortunately, you have to deal with Nikon USA
which means, calling emailing, sending it to them each time you see dust & you have to be pro active about it, since its free only under warranty. And ultimately (after 2-3 returns) ask for a refund or D610. which can be extremely painful
I love my camera (camera, not particularly a nikon camera) so i did everything i could, to have one without defects.
good luck!

 

[Marcel]

I've heard things from Nikon reps that made me think twice about screaming and complaining about this. One thing that really got my attention was: Can you see the problem in "normal shooting" conditions. Now, I know that for some it really does and whoever tried to do HDR at smaller apertures than f11, these were sticking out like a barn in a haystack.

But, when you have to test for dust at f22 and you don't see the specks, couldn't you just accept it then? No, you've got to tweak the contrast to levels you would never tweak a normal picture to and then you proclaim: Ha Ha... See how dirty my sensor is. I have to say that you are not using the camera in a normal way the way a normal well exposed picture should be tweaked.

I know, because I've been there and it kept me cleaning and cleaning but at some point I simply accepted a clean sensor "BEFORE THE TWEAKS" to be clean. When I do an HDR and I see a problem, I just then retouch it with Photoshop. I will not loose sleep over this.

So, all in all, what makes me upset the most is that some Nikon users sent their cameras in and they came back dirtier than when they left. Now this is the unacceptable part. with any manufactured good today, you'll get some problem units. For some production batches, more problems than others. But that does not make all units of that particular model defective.

So, my point is, take pictures with your loved Nikons, don't just take thousands of pictures of a white wall in order to try to prove that dust gets inside. Because dust WILL get inside anyway and one day or another you'll have either to have your sensor cleaned or learn to clean it yourself.