How to work around
it?
I bought this camera, a Nikon D500, secondhand from a store.
Cameranu.nl in the Netherlands. Not a good idea to buy
there anymore. That may be clear if you look at the picture
below.
They give a year garantee on their stuff and everything is
checked before it is sent to the buyer. No idea what they
checked with this camera. Maybe that it WAS a camera?
I bought this camera after my adventure with the D750 that kept
to get very dirty even if you did not change the lenses. It
seemed to come outof nowhere. And then now this one....
supposedly to be completely in order.
Later I bought a brandnew D780. And yes, after a few months the
same problems started to arise. I (with my heart in my throat)
cleaned the sensor with swaps and yes... I got rid of a lot of
dust, but other particles had dicided to keep residence on the
sensor. I was considering to buy a bridge camera that had does
not have interchangeble lenses to get rid of the dustproblem.
But then my brain had a bright moment.
If we need to put the aperture to f22 to check for dirt because
you do not see it otherwise..... would there not be the
solution? Do NOT close to f22. I changed from shutterspeed
choice (where the camera decides on the f-stop) to aperture
choice, where I did not close the lens further than f11. In
most cases with 1/8000 as a maximum that will do. Problem
solved.
Of course it will not mean you never have to clean the sensor
again. But when you do and some particles stay behind it is not
a problem.
I use my camera now with much more pleasure than before!
Here is a picture as an example. It is clear this camera cannot
be used in this way.
KISS