I finally found dust in my 5D!!

[westernminnguy]

Hello All,

Again(and for the umteenth time), I've been reading about dust on the 5D sensor.

Feeling disappointed that I couldn't find dust in my 5D sensor or viewfinder, I finally shot a picture of the blue sky(like other folks do when looking for dust. Sorry, I didnt keep the picture...who the heck wants a picture of a blue sky? But the dust was there...gotta trust me on this) :D

Sure nuf...it was there....tiny specs. Without cleaning my lens or sensor, I shot a picture of a duck in our backyard.

(I removed the picture to make space for others I wanted on the net)

I cropped the picture but the dust(that I saw in the sky anyway) was definitely in the area where the duck appears.

Darn dust anyway....where did it go?? :)

You know...I sort of feel ripped off. This reminds me of my Olympus OM1 35mm that had dust on the screen and in the screen area but it never showed up on the picture.

This dust on the 5D sensor thing sort of reminds me of a friend of mine that just paid umpteen $$$ for a Harley Davidson motorcycle. The Harley's that he'd grown up with all leaked oil. His new(and much more expensive Harley) didn't leak oil.....he was disappointed. Then, like magic, one day his Harley leaked a little oil on the driveway....he was happy.

Oh well, my poor attempt at humor.

Still the 5D is great and fun.

[Jim G]

Heh. Did you clean it? :p

[westernminnguy]

Heh. Did you clean it? :p

Yep.

I'm very meticulous(sp?) when it comes to lens cleaning....but I'm not sure why or what's to gain.....honest response here.

I clean everytime I change lenses...that's the camera and the lens.

[SWPhotoImaging]

I don't clean my 5D sensor (or any other) until the dust spots appear in the images I am processing and are annoying enough to make me clean it. If it is just one or two dust spots, I might blow it with my rocket blower at the next lens change, or before putting things away in the bag, but if I get a dust spot in an area where it only shows up when I do portrait shots with more than 2/3 sky, I won't even bother. I just use the spot healing brush on it and I'm good to go. A blue sky test of my first DSLR (10D) after the first two years of use looked like a microscope view of pond water. Funny, they weren't showing up in the images . . .

[AmericanFirst]

Funny... I was wondering where the dust was going... you have it all in your 5D! ;)

[Tdragone]

The only time you will see the dust is on small Aperture pictures. I don't see any dust in any of my pics until I go beyond F11; which I don't typically do.
Your pic above was saved via adobe and has no exif data; but I'm assuming if you look at your pic; your Aperture will be quite large (guessing because grass behind duck is oof) so yes, the dust IS there; but your Aperture is too large for it to show.

[ghocking]

My 5D is showing little or no dust at present, but there again my 17-40 stays on it just about full time. Compare this to my IIN, which is full of the stuff (some supplied as a free gift by Canon form new). I just use the healing brush until it gets that bad, and then just the Rocket blower.

[westernminnguy]

The only time you will see the dust is on small Aperture pictures. I don't see any dust in any of my pics until I go beyond F11; which I don't typically do.
Your pic above was saved via adobe and has no exif data; but I'm assuming if you look at your pic; your Aperture will be quite large (guessing because grass behind duck is oof) so yes, the dust IS there; but your Aperture is too large for it to show.

Yes, the aperture was larger.

Thanks for all the comments on my poor attempt at humor here.

:)

Take care all.