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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 182912" data-attributes="member: 9240">Marcel is right.&nbsp; Have you invested in a bulb blower?&nbsp; If not, you&nbsp; should, and it's your first line of defense in the dust wars.&nbsp; So before you start thinking you have an issue get a blower and go through these steps.&nbsp; Lock the&nbsp; mirror up for cleaning, hold the camera with the opening facing down and&nbsp; use the blower (never compressed air or your mouth) to blow across the&nbsp; sensor and let gravity do its job.&nbsp; Take a reference photo, blow the sensor clean,&nbsp; and take another reference photo to compare the two.&nbsp; If you have dust&nbsp; remaining in the same spots, repeat and check again.&nbsp; If it's still&nbsp; there, you may have a &quot;problem&quot; if there are&nbsp; several particles concentrated on the edges and in corners.&nbsp; If you have&nbsp; one or two here and there, that's just life with a DSLR and you will&nbsp; eventually need to wet clean the sensor to remove them.&nbsp; I know all about the differences between oil spots and regular dust&nbsp; thanks to the D600, and the primary difference I've seen is that oil&nbsp; spots will appear perfectly round in a dust reference photo, where dust&nbsp; looks like, well, dust.The camera is a tool you need to maintain, so learning how to clean it&nbsp; is essential.&nbsp; I wet clean every couple thousand clicks if I have more&nbsp; than a handful of persistent dust particles.&nbsp; I blow the sensor fairly&nbsp; regularly - usually when I put on a new lens before a day of shooting.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I'm not changing the lens I'll shoot a reference photo and see if it&nbsp; needs it.&nbsp; Better than finding it in the pictures at the end of the day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 182912, member: 9240"] Marcel is right. Have you invested in a bulb blower? If not, you should, and it's your first line of defense in the dust wars. So before you start thinking you have an issue get a blower and go through these steps. Lock the mirror up for cleaning, hold the camera with the opening facing down and use the blower (never compressed air or your mouth) to blow across the sensor and let gravity do its job. Take a reference photo, blow the sensor clean, and take another reference photo to compare the two. If you have dust remaining in the same spots, repeat and check again. If it's still there, you [I][B]may [/B][/I]have a "problem" if there are several particles concentrated on the edges and in corners. If you have one or two here and there, that's just life with a DSLR and you will eventually need to wet clean the sensor to remove them. I know all about the differences between oil spots and regular dust thanks to the D600, and the primary difference I've seen is that oil spots will appear perfectly round in a dust reference photo, where dust looks like, well, dust. The camera is a tool you need to maintain, so learning how to clean it is essential. I wet clean every couple thousand clicks if I have more than a handful of persistent dust particles. I blow the sensor fairly regularly - usually when I put on a new lens before a day of shooting. If I'm not changing the lens I'll shoot a reference photo and see if it needs it. Better than finding it in the pictures at the end of the day. [/QUOTE]

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