Seeing spots.....lens flaw?

[drjuice]

Unless you have a hepa filter (which filters out exceptionally small particles), it's every possible that a speck dust landed inside the body of your camera and that you need some cleaning done or to do your own cleaning. I never had this kind of problem with either of my Maxxams, or either of my Mamiyas (all 4 were standard 35mm cameras) and I was astonished at the size of the particles that wound up inside my own cameras in spite of the fact that I am as careful as you.

Elsewhere in this forum, around 22 April 2013, and I'm not sure how to find it, I described my practice for changing lenses in such a way that the position of the camera body when I don't have a lens attached during the process of changing lenses is ALWAYS "face down" so that the camera mount that accepts the lenses is ALWAYS in that position and the lens' rear mount ALWAYS has a lens cap on it until after it is positioned to be mounted on the camera body.

Hope this helps.

virginia

[jcuknz]

Sorrry to be a troll BUT .... surely holding the camera face down and lens up makes the lens an ideal bowl to catch dust which when mated to the camera is free to travel to the sensor [ Murphy's Law] ... I think not changing lenses except when really neccessary is the answer
I am not going to say my way works because Murphy's Law suggests I will immediately have specs on my sensor if I do
Probably going to have them anyway after writing that

I have read somewhere that some cameras shut off the sensor as part [ prior] of the taking a photo, either physically as it seemed I read or electronically ... I know I go blind with every camera, film or digital except my TLR Rollei, at the time of exposure