my pictures

[mike_gulman]

<p>Hi. I am new to this forum and this is my first pfotos with dslr camera with canon macro 60 lens.<img src="file:///Volumes/Untitled/DCIM/100CANON/_MG_0600.JPG" alt="" /><img src="file:///Volumes/Untitled/DCIM/100CANON/_MG_0600.JPG" alt="" /> How can I post? Thanks.<br>

Mike</p>

[James G. Dainis]

To post a photo on the forum:

 

Write a post or response. After you hit the SUBMIT and then the next CONFIRM button you will come to another page in which you can upload a photo to your post. Just hit the BROWSE button and select the photo on your computer. Make sure you write something in the CAPTION box and then hit UPLOAD. The photo should not be more than 1000 Pixels wide.

[mike_gulman]

<p>will try</p>

[Matthew Currie]

<p>Note that the 1000 pixel limit is on the longest side of the photo. A vertical photo can only be 1000 pixels high too.</p>

<p>There's a macro forum, so if you're doing macros that might be a good place to put them. Check out the "No Words" forum too, in which various themes are introduced. Good fun, and some really nice photos turn up there. </p>

[glenn_racoma]

<p>Can someone please help me. I have a image here where there is smear-like shape on the top-left of the picture, in the sky area. These are noticed on only particular shots where there is lighted area, such as daylight sky etc. Is the lens filthy or there may be another problem here. Please help me. Thank you<br /><br /></p>

<p>Thank you,<br /> Glenn</p>

[Tony Parsons]

<p>Looks to me like a hair on the sensor - does it occur on all lenses ?</p>

<p>Tony</p>

[jcuknz]

<p>Gleen a hair or anything on the lens is most unlikely to be seen as it is well out of the depth of field with most lenses. Why I rarely clean my lens as unless the light is shining on the len it will not degrade the image*. More lens are spoilt by cleaning than photos by dust on lens my tutor told us way back in the days of 'soft coated lens'. Probably not applicable with modern lens with hard coatings but the principle stays with me :-)</p>

<p>*in this situation I shade the lens with my hand, or something, even if my hand shows as one can crop or edit it out. [clone]<br>

Here I only wanted the figure walking to the tent, shooting almost into the sun with nothing but my hand to shade lens.</p><div></div>

[glenn_racoma]

<p>I am not a professional reason why I do not have multiple lenses. It's the lens that came with the camera. However, I did try to clean it gently with a drop of distilled water on a damp micro cloth and seems I took off that top-left smear but then it appears I now have a smaller circular area that has that same smear the size of a tiny pea (1/4").<br>

Glenn</p><div></div>

[Tony Parsons]

<p>Glenn,<br>

Your second picture was posted in portrait format, therefore the 'mark' has moved through ninety degrees. As has been suggested, it is nothing to do with the lens (and many hobbyist photographers have more than one lens) - it is a hair or other foreign matter on the sensor of the camera. To have it removed, take the camera to your nearest reliable professional repair facility and let them clean it for you - then everything will be fine.<br>

BTW, as this exchange represents a divergence from the subject matter of the original post, it may have been better to start a new thread for it. Maybe the moderators could do that for you.</p>

<p>Tony</p>

[alan_olander1664878205]

<p>It's the same "smear", in the same place, because you've rotated the camera. It's dust or hair on the sensor. How much it shows depends upon the aperture used when the image was taken. Small aperture, e.g. f/22, the more it shows. Have the sensor cleaned.</p>

[glenn_racoma]

<p>Thank you all who responded. All we have here as far as a camera shop is a Best Buy store. Maybe they can clean the sensor.<br>

Sincere regards,<br>

Glenn</p>

[glenn_racoma]

<p>Excuse me if this is not the appropriate topic to blog my issue but I just wanted to give you an update on my filthy censor issue.<br>

<strong>Because of your helpful response</strong> I did come to a conclusion that my sensor was filthy and needed cleaning. Being a tight wad that I am, I built up enough guts to clean it myself and saved a few dollars. I went online and watched two videos that were very clear on opening the casing of my Panasonic Lumix 16X camera to get to the censor. It was a very...very intricate task that required my careful attention coupled with patience. But I did complete the process and the filth issue was resolved!<br>

<strong>Without your responses,</strong> I would not have known the specific issue I was dealing with. So again, thank you all who have helped me to recognize what needed to be done. However, I will say this - cameras like mine are a lot more intricate in reaching the sensor than a professional digital lens camera. There were at least 6-8 intricate/delicate steps as opposed to just unscrewing a lens - this is not a procedure if one has not the time to slow down. Whew!<br>

<strong>Rational why these cameras are notorious to air particles</strong><br>

The camera has a zoom lens that can either auto or manually adjust the zooming. Every time it does, and will all the time, it retracts back into it's casing using a subtle vacuum system that literally <em>'sucks</em>' the air around it. Thus, a liable sensor in a dusty environment. My image below shows that environment yet hostile to cameras. And there you have it.<br>

Thank you and if you don't mind, I would like coming back here as I find photography very intriguing and with it's challenges.<br>

Regards,<br>

Glenn</p>

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[Tony Parsons]

<p>Glenn,<br>

I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that I am glad we were able to help you to solve your problem - I had not realised that yours was not an interchangeable lens camera. Apologies. We look forward to your continuing presence here, and hope you'll be able to post further examples of your work in one of the many image-oriented forums (fora?) on this site.<br>

Love the elephants.<br>

Tony<br>

BTW, if you can resize your images so that the longest side is 1000 pixels or less, you can post them directly without needing a link.</p>

[jcuknz]

<p>In the meatime until you get the sensor cleaned you could look to your editor and you would find that with the clone tool it is a ten second job to cover the mark with sky from nearby.This was an easy job, it is not always quite so easy :-)<br>

The photo also shows that you were shooting almost into the sun, something I avoid and I am sure in a city environment you could have found within a few feet something to shade the lens.<br>

It is rare that one has to include the shading object in the frame... my first pix was an extreme example and I was a bit heavy handed as the man walking away was getting smaller.<br>

As a ex-professional the camera I normally use has one lens on it 99.9% of the time... M4/3 with a x10 zoom for convenience in general shooting. Duplication as far as possible the specs of my eariel brifge camera Panasonic FX 20/30/50..</p><div></div>

[jcuknz]

<p>I didn't see you last comments but would tell you in all my experience with my bridge cameras I never had to clean my sensor nor my Pany GH2 I now use ... despite the dire warnings one reads on blogs about zoom lens .... but perhaps my FZ were better designed with the lens not tromboning but zooming taking place within the lens. My GH2 with its 14-140 lens is not automatic and no problems to date .... perhaps some considerations to consider for your next camera, not a DSLR I hope with the temptation to change the lenses anywhere and everywhere :-)<br>

Congratulations on your successful repair job ... more than I would be prepared to tackle .....</p>