DSLR/SLR Post Your Photos & Discussion Thread

[Dilly]

2/52 by D.Wong - Dilly, on Flickr


SP Engineering LP640 by D.Wong - Dilly, on Flickr

[bedheadben]

Great isolation of the injectors and I'm digging the black and white. What was the lighting used for the isolation?

[Dilly]

Thanks, Ben. SB600 bounced off the backdrop to the left.

[Andy]

hey maybe you guys can help me out. My nikon d50 whenever i take a photo i see a red dot in the exact same place every time. Sometimes depending on the color that i am taking a photo there is a lighter red line going down the photo from the red dot. Maybe you guys have some insight.

when i try to post up a picture the picture is too small to notice. And when looking on my photos i now can not find the line. My only problem is just the one small red dot.

is this a damaged sensor or just a dirty sensor.

ok it wont let me remove the terrible photo i took that i uploaded by accident.

[bedheadben]

I'm not seeing it in the pic, maybe I'm blind haha. Can you circle it for me, or show another pic?

[Andy]

DSC_0011 by xbeatles4x, on Flickr

the red dot is on the screen of the ipod

[bedheadben]

Try cleaning your sensor.

[Andy]

how do you do that? or do i need to take it to some where to do that

[bedheadben]

There is no need to take it somewhere unless you feel uncomfortable doing it yourself. You can get a little rocket blower and if that doesn't do the trick there are many different paths to take from there. Check out the tips on this site: http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/methods.html

[Andy]

what method would you recommend?

[bedheadben]

Try the rocket blower first then if that doesn't work then I would try sensor swab and eclipse.

[Skinny]

Is the Nikon 18-200 vr1 or 2 really worth it? I have a Nikon 18-55 and 55-200 non vr and a 70-300. Thanks

I hated mine, was slow, felt clunky, without a grip the vr sucks battery life. Much prefer my 75-150 f3.5 from the 80s

[★ smaeda ★]

Some more bokeh filter experiments.

[bedheadben]

Oh man, LOVE that second one!

[LunchboX]

what method would you recommend?

I haven't done it for years, but it was with face to face help from a professional and I think that eclipse cleaner is what I used. For a swab, we used half of a popsicle stick with a pec pad on the end (see bedheadben's link). Be light with the pressure. If the stain is a bit stubborn, just keep swapping out the swabbing material and continue going over it.