Chuck ...........
I'm sure there will be other listees who will express their gratitude to you
for posting this message; I certainly do.
What camera were you using on your long trip?
If it was an Olympus E series camera was your dust problem an unfortunate
one-off or perhaps indicative of what can, and likely will, happen after
prolonged usage despite Olympus having its own technology that supposedly
keeps the sensor in a sealed dust proof environment?
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus mail list" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:00 PM
Subject: [OM] An amazing discovery... well, to me anyhow
> While perusing my 3500 photos taken during my long trip around the
> country I was dismayed to discover that the camera had picked up a faint
> dust spot about half way through the journey. Not readily visible
> except in clear blue skies but, of course, what was I shooting but
> mostly landscapes with clear blue skies. Anyhow, I have been dreading
> going through the last half of the shots.
>
> Purely by accident I was trolling through some stuff on Canyon's web
> site about dust removal which I thought was going to be totally camera
> related. The camera related stuff was not particularly useful but then
> I stumbled across this gem. Click on the link below and scroll down to
> "Dust Mapping" and "With Adobe Software" below it.
> <http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1446&fromTips=1>
>
> I have only recently started doing identical exposure and related
> adjustments across multiple images in Camera Raw using the "Select" and
> "Synchronize" options. For unknown reasons I have never attempted to
> use any retouching tools in Camera Raw nor did I realize that they could
> also be the subject of "synchronization" across multiple images.
> Furthermore it never occurred to me that any form of "retouching" would
> be useful across images. But, as it turns out, it certainly is useful
> for cloning out or healing dust spots. Pay particular attention to the
> admonition to allow the software to choose the healing source. That
> again is a capability I didn't know existed.
>
> I still hate to think of possibly having to dust spot hundreds of photos
> but this should make it go a whole lot faster. I'll also remember from
> now on to recheck the camera for dust from time to time whenever I'm on
> a lenthy trip shooting thousands of images. I cleaned the camera before
> I left. I even took my cleaning gear. But it doesn't help if you don't
> spot check once in a while and clean as required.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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