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23Nov

Topaz Labs – Promotion 50% Off

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Have you been waiting to purchase a Topaz plug-in? How about the full Plug-in Bundle or Bundle Upgrade? Whether you’re buying for yourself or the photographer in your life, now is the time! Be sure to take advantage of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings, 50% off all individual products and bundles, by entering the code “CyberSavings” when purchasing.

 Sale Ends 11/26/12 (26th November 2012)

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Enjoy the Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings!

Best,
Nichole Paschal
Topaz Labs

02Aug

DSLR Sensor Dust – How to deal with it.

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I recently noticed a few shots online that had the dreaded dust bunnies in them and this prompted today’s posting. Note this only applies to DSLR or Medium Format with interchangeable lenses and mirror mechanisms, not to your mirrorless Point and Shoot or Bridge Camera UNLESS they have interchangeable lenses where the sensor is visible and prone to contamination.

A few days after I bought my Tokina 12-24mm f/4.0 ATX Pro DX, I was at the coast. With the intention to do UWA scapes with the D80 (It’s ISO 100 and long exposure is superb on the CCD). The camera is seldom used and I also rarely remove the Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 that’s on it. Less lens changes, less dust, or so the theory goes. Camera has done under 6000 images in 4 years.

So I get up at 4am and head off to the local lake district in Sedgefield for a few pre-dawn landscapes. Take a few shots, chimp at the screen. Everything looks awesome (LCD’s always make everything look awesome…)

Get back to the apartment and fire up the laptop, offload the images…enlarge…and there they are…”dust” bunnies.

King Fisher River Lagoon – Dust Bunnies – Click Image for full size – Blue circle is a “Hot” Pixel – more on that in another posting.

 

What a waste of time! No wait, I can clone them out in PP. But still, what a waste of time if I had just spent a bit more time on checking the SENSOR pre-shoot. I honestly thought that because I rarely remove the lens (more…)