Good Camera store? Provo Utah

[stowell_48]

Does anyone know of a good camera store in the Provo, Utah area?

Thanks

[SuzyView]

No. I was at Inkley's twice this summer, it's the RITZ of the west. If you want to buy anything, buy on the web, B&H, Adorama, Amazon. It's safe and so much better and cheaper. I know, you want to touch and see for yourself, then go to Inkley's but don't buy it there. Chances are they don't have what you are looking for anyway. The one I went to at the University Mall (I think) had good staff, though. Nice guys. They let me use a blower to get the dust out of my sensor.

[stowell_48]

Thanks.

Well I just bought my rebel xt about a month ago, and I noticed that every once in a while my pictures have spots on them. It would not happen all the time just once in a while.

So I took a look at the lense and on the outside of the lense there are a few little circle dots. I am not sure what they are so I was going to go and have someone look at it and see what I needed to do to fix it. I don't think I did anything to cause them, I think they may have come that way.

So I was going to see what they had to clean the lense. I didn't want to try anything myself and risk scratching it.

Thanks for the quick reply. If anyone else has seen this and has an idea what it could be and to fix it please let me know.

I hope it is something that hasn't damaged the lense and can be easily removed or fixed.

[SuzyView]

If you bought it new, there shouldn't be dark spots. Do you see any echos in your photographs? It could be sensor dust. Go to the thread about dust if that is something you are brave enough to do. (It's easy, just take a little plastic blower without the brush and clean the sensor with it.) I do it about once a month now since I do switch my lenses a lot. If you have a lens pen (Nikon makes one), you can try that on the lens. I never touch the glass with anything but the microfiber cloth I got for my glasses or the pen. No one at Inkley's will be able to help you if the spots are inside the camera or lens. They don't touch it. If you go in they will help you clean it, but not do it themselves. I know. I asked them and they didn't know anything. I knew what to do, but didn't have a blower and they were kind enough to lend me a new one. I blew the dust out (and there was dust flying all over the place when I used the littlel blower).

Procedure, in case you are a little nervous: In the camera LDS menu, clean sensor, the mirror will get out of the way, leave the camera on, detach the lens. You will see that the mirror is out of the way, turn your camera upside down, so the opening is facing down, squeeze the blower inside the opening without touching anything (do not get too far inside you may damage the sensor). I often do this cleaning at a table with a dark sheet of paper under to see if any dust came out. Blow it a couple of times to make sure. Then re-attach the lens and turn the camera off. The mirror will go back to place. Then shoot a couple of pictures of the sky and see if you got the dust out. Good luck. DO NOT USE CAN OF AIR!