Do You Want to Keep Dust Off Your Sensor?

Winter Sunset over the James River at the Hilton Pier, Newport News, VA

If you want to keep as much dust as possible off your sensor, try practicing these techniques.

1) Never remove a lens with the camera turned on.

2) When the lens is off, always hold the camera with the opening facing downward.

3) Blow off the inside of your rear lens caps.  You will be surprised at how much dust can be in there and subsequently be transferred to the rear of your lens, then into your camera body.

4) Also clean your lens' rear element as well as the mounting flange regularly.

5) Don't change lenses needlessly.  When you change them, do it quickly.  Preplan how you will make the change.

6) Try to shelter your camera when changing lenses and not change them when it is windy or dusty.

7) If your camera body has an automated sensor cleaning function, set it to clean at start up and shutdown. It will slightly delay your camera's start up, but if you don't need to have it turn on instantly, you may save yourself time in editing not having to spot dust out of your images.  If you need to have your camera start up instantly, set the function to clean upon shutdown.

Thanks for looking.  Enjoy!

Dennis Mook

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