Camera Sensor Dust Spots - How to find and fix them!

Dust spots on your camera sensor is one of the most frustrating aspects of photography. It’s when little specs of dirt or dust appear as tiny black dots on your images when you’re editing them later on. Don’t stress though, finding them and dealing with them is easy when you know how.

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[paulcookphotography]

Great video Ralph! Love the thumbnail, the best I've seen in a while! So much useful info in this video. Basically exactly what my sensor looks like. I've cleaned it myself and it is literally one of the scariest things you can do. But to your point, just be careful, and if you do, you come away with a nice clean sensor again! Thanks for the great information. Hope you are well. Have a great week and stay safe mate!

[PhotosByFinch]

very helpful video Ralph, thanks for sharing tips on this rather scary (yet inevitable) subject!

[HarrisonTong]

Just got to watching this ! Cheers mate 👍 Great tips as always 🤙

[BlackBlocksConstruction]

Thank you for saving my life! The blowing upside down really helps!

[DanielWretham]

Really handy video Ralph ! I hate seeing peoples pics with dust spots !

[HaiTomVlog]

Great tip! I actually got one of those rockets about a month ago when I started noticing all of the dust on my hiking camera’s photos. Works wonders! I’m not brave enough to try a sensor cleaning kit though! 😅

[mix]

Hello Ralph, amazing video! I have a question, I got a new phone very recently and today as i woke up a dark spot appeared on my front facing camera. It's nothing too serious but very annoying. Is it possible that it is a dust spot? I tried wiping it, restarting it but nothing worked. Btw, yesterday I went out with some friends so i don't really remember what could have happened to it lol.

[AndrewHamiltonPhotography]

I was out on the front the other morning and caught my neighbour pointing her camera at the sky - ah I thought 💭 Checking for dust spots and sure enough she was ! Boom Shaka Laka 💥 Great tips and I’m still to scared to mess with the sensor ! Have a great weekend 👍🏻

[dirtytreerat]

what is a good alternative to those air sprayers? dont have time to buy one as im going on a trip in a few days.

[tekguyphoto]

Hello Ralph, any idea how to handle these Sony dust spots while travelling on long trips without a laptop. Its very hard to see the spots on the LCD of the A7IV which as terrible resolution. I bought a brand new A7IV and it already has dust after 1 weeks use. I swap lenses facing down with the shutter curtain closed. I also when I remember try and remove the battery and turn it on to drain the voltage from the sensor. I also try and use the antishake mechanism as often as I remember but still getting dust. I also shoot Canon and my R6 has 1 medium dust spot after 14 months of use. I moved away from Sony when I had the A7III because of the dust spots after a 3 week European trip. I got home and most small aperture videos had dust spots which I could not see on the LCD during playback. I hate cleaning the sensor because of the risk involved and this camera is brand new. Why does Sony have more dust issues compared to Canon ? I can say this because I have been shooting both system for many years.

[warrenharvey]

Great stuff 👍 really digging the sun kissed look your Rocking 🥵😂😂

[RayRomanMedia]

I changed my new A7IV from electronic to mechanical. Would that cause something like this to happen so soon. It’s literally like a day old and the first day I was just setting up menus.

Also, what if my censors has the barn doors over it to protect it. Do you just shoot the air at that? I’ll have to switch back to electronic shooting mode to see if it exposes the censor vs having it on mechanical.

[MaazSaleem_kw]

Thank you just got the spot out from my sensor!

[sabyasachi]

I had an annoying spot. It was ruining some of my street photography shots. I used a clean unused ear bud, and cleaned around with the softest, most sensitive and most careful touch that I have ever done. This can be tried out too.

[paulkennedycreativemedia]

this happened to me this morning. went out to shoot for my new video and got back home to see the images and what do i see...dust spots. time to clean i think.

[electrichearts]

ooh so that's what these spots were .. i have had one spot not lint in so many of my with this method i also saw many more lint spots

[eatisamkhan]

I used all that tips but none work for me ?
What to do now ?

[projectunashamed]

Whats the name of the sensor blower rocket ?

[oakleavez]

A dust mark is showing, but only when I film and is visible on my monitor but not when I take a photo. I cannot find where it is. Does anyone have any idea where it could be?

[havefunwithmacrophotograph]

why dust show under high f stop even if manual focus on thin object like paper ?!