Help, what is this on the picture?

[detzX]

New lense, only used it once and today I looked over the images and they all have this on them. Is it something on the lense or sensor? :(

[Rigrider]

looks like a dirty sensor to me...

L8r,

[tim]

Read this (http://www.pbase.com/copperhill/ccd_cleaning).

[Steve Parr]

It's one of three things:

1) It's a UFO. Please contact the United States Air Force
2) It's a "spirit orb". Contact your local paranormal invesigator
3) It's dust on the sensor. Refer to the link referenced by Tim

Steve

[picard]

contact the X-Files department of the FBI. :)

[The22oz]

Ghost ... or tiny UFOs sitting on your lens.

[MattL]

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/search.gif

[detzX]

The camera is only a few weeks old, how can the sensor need cleaning already! :( How much does this cost at a store to do?

[Curtis N]

The camera is only a few weeks old, how can the sensor need cleaning already!Check out this thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=127140).

That looks like a pretty big blob of sensor snot. You probably don't need a copperhill kit for it. A good bulb blower might do the trick. Or an earwax removal bulb, available cheap at drugstores. The instruction manual for the camera tells you how.

Another way to make those things disappear is to open your aperture.

[detzX]

I think that's why I didn't notice it before, I took xmas pictures with my 50mm and an f around 1.8-2.0 but when I went outside I used the 70-200 f/4 and most pictures were above f/5 and thats when they started showing up. Put my 50 on last light and tested and couldn't see it....

[Steve Parr]

The camera is only a few weeks old, how can the sensor need cleaning already! :( How much does this cost at a store to do?

I've had my 20D for a week and a half, and I have three very faint dust spots on my sensor. I figure some fine-grit sandpaper oughta' do the trick. :D

Seriously, it happens, and it's got nothing to do with how old a camera is...

Steve

[usukshooter]

The camera is only a few weeks old, how can the sensor need cleaning already! :( How much does this cost at a store to do?

Anytime you remove the lens, you're putting it at risk for dirt or dust getting inside and on the sensor. That means even if its the first time you've switched lenses, it's still at risk of getting dust or dirt on the sensor.

[vjack]

I'd rule out dirt on the lens before messing with the sensor.

[detzX]

I'd rule out dirt on the lens before messing with the sensor.

I looked at pictures from difference lenese and I can see them. :(