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I took a night shot with the new VR 70-200 last night and noticed what looked to be a large amount of dust in the shot, as can be seen across just above the centre - it looks to be red and green lumps around the third turret from the left. Technically, it should never ever look like that - it should be the odd dot here and there, and hardly noticable unless you're taking long exposures of something bright. I called my friendly local camera shop who told me it'd be about 45 quid and take at least 24 hours.
So I set about doing it myself. The D100 requires you to have a separate power supply, which enables a menu function to move the mirror and the curtain, thus allowing access to the CCD. The other way of doing it (as I did) is to set a 30 second exposure, whip the lens off, and the clean it that way.
After I'd done a sweep, I'd take a 2 second exposure of a bright white (gloss) door at ISO3200, with the lens pulled to infinity focus. This made any dust spots stand out like a sore thumb as they'd appear as black on white.
shadyron | General, Photography | 10 January, 12:34pm
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