Lens Cleaning Kit: The Necessary Evil
A spot! A spot! It’s a spot!
I should have saved one of the photographs showing it, but there was a piece of dust showing up in my photographs. This isn’t the first time it’s happened, and I know it won’t be the last.
My first thought when seeing a spot in the viewfinder was that it was on the lens. Switching to another lens, however, did not “remove” the spot. This means it was on the camera itself.
I’m not sure how it happened when I haven’t swapped lenses recently, and the spot wasn’t there until today. Maybe there was dust inside, and it “fell into place” when I moved the camera?
The solution? I removed the lens, and in the camera is a rectangle piece of glass. I lightly brushed that with a lens brush, then put the lens back on. Pointing the viewfinder to the clear, blue sky (a good place to find spots of dust on a lens), I found the dust was no longer there.
Another spot of dust bites the dust!