Dust in camera

I am new to this game i have had my 400d for two weeks now and i havea lot of dust showing up on some of my blue sky shots should i take the camera back to the shop or is this a common fault with this type of camera.The self cleaning thing does not seem to be doing much of a job,have u herd of this problem with this camera outher than that it is great.Ps i have had the lens on the camera since new not took it off.

Well I am kind of disappointed if the anti-dust technology is not working as well as hoped, but there is always the old backup method.

Look in the manual on how to do it, but there should be a way to have the shutter open for cleaning (look up shutter cleaning).
#1 recommendation after that is a rocket blower. Just blow the dust off the sensor.
That will usually get rid of most if not all of the dust.

What dust it doesn't get rid of probably needs to be physically moved by some method and several work fine. I use the cheap clean artistic brush method myself, but you can buy anti-static, self cleaning brushes for doing the same thing.

Boy jack wrote in post #2328338
I am new to this game i have had my 400d for two weeks now and i havea lot of dust showing up on some of my blue sky shots should i take the camera back to the shop or is this a common fault with this type of camera.The self cleaning thing does not seem to be doing much of a job,have u herd of this problem with this camera outher than that it is great.Ps i have had the lens on the camera since new not took it off.

I use a blower. First I remove the lens or cap from the body of the camera, then blow out the inside of it (with the mirror still down). Be careful not to touch the mirror with the tip of the blower.

After that's been blown out, put the camera into sensor cleaning mode and blow the sensor, again, careful not to touch the sensor itself. Has worked for me so far!

Good luck.

--Sean

Thanks for the info as i am new to this type of camera i think i will go back to the shop with it and get them to show me or better do it for me so i can see how to do it thanks.

Took camera back to shop this morning and got a clean one this one seems ok .

Boy jack wrote in post #2333178
Took camera back to shop this morning and got a clean one this one seems ok .

Well, good that you got a clean camera... but I really would look into learning how to clean it. Dust is a normal occurance for these cameras, and you're either going to have to learn to do it yourself, or learn to pay a shop to do it for you.

There's no getting around it!

--Sean