Bryan Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 At this time of year my eyes start to itch and I begin to sneeze, it's hay fever season. It's accompanied by those little flies that turn up as black spots against blue skies. While they do accurately represent the scene, I suspect that they will also lead to a QC failure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Bryan, I have to admit that I never take the chance of leaving them and zap them. My worst experience of this was in Scotland in the midge season - at first I didn't realise and thought something was at fault with my camera, but they had to go. Time consuming, but there you go. Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I had a few like that when taking a sunset over a reservoir. There were just too many flies/midges to zap so they where not submitted. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike R Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 At this time of year my eyes start to itch and I begin to sneeze, it's hay fever season. It's accompanied by those little flies that turn up as black spots against blue skies. While they do accurately represent the scene, I suspect that they will also lead to a QC failure? I take it you mean pollen polluting sensor during lens changes? At least for me this is one of the main reasons I am not a fan of lens changes - at all. I shot a wedding once where a lot of images had blotches right where faces tend to get shot in vertical. never saw it while chimping, even zoomed in. It was a nightmare to post-edit! This was with a Pentax that I will only remembered as being a real dust-magnet. My Nikon d70 and D300 had not as bad but still pronounced sensor-dust love. So far with Sony a6000 (3 bodies by now.. don't ask) not a single problem and I have probably changed lenses more with these than any system before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Walker Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Same problem if you take photos against clear blue skies near bee hives. - Always worst on your best shots too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhandol Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Not just the summer flies in the sky or dust specs on sensor, but the birds too can be a pain if your shooting a timelapse movie because that means 240 frames to scrutinise for 10 seconds worth of footage (played back at 24 frames per second). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 I take it you mean pollen polluting sensor during lens changes? At least for me this is one of the main reasons I am not a fan of lens changes - at all. I shot a wedding once where a lot of images had blotches right where faces tend to get shot in vertical. never saw it while chimping, even zoomed in. It was a nightmare to post-edit! This was with a Pentax that I will only remembered as being a real dust-magnet. My Nikon d70 and D300 had not as bad but still pronounced sensor-dust love. So far with Sony a6000 (3 bodies by now.. don't ask) not a single problem and I have probably changed lenses more with these than any system before Same experience here Mike, the Canon 5Ds that I have owned have been dust magnets, the mark 1 particularly so, but the Sony NEX 6 is very much better. It's not totally immune, I have cleaned the sensor twice since buying it, but that's one very well used camera, and I have no complaints. Re changing lenses, I use mainly primes on the NEX, so I am changing lenses constantly, while with my Canon I use a couple of zooms, so much less frequent swaps. I think that the problem (for the camera) is flies rather than pollen, and yes I also spend ages cloning them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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