Ha -- I did indeed have some fun with this last week myself! I have done this a couple times before, but I'm always fairly terrified to do it. I have had my Nikon D6 since 2020, and I decided it was finally time to do it. I was shooting a dance studio, and with the light-colored backdrop and smaller apertures, the dust shows up pretty badly.
So I took a practice swing on my D800, and everything went well. And I *thought* everything went well when I did it on the D6. But when I got to the dance studio, I looked at my first few images and realized that I must have been a tiny bit off center with the pad, and it left a streak along the top of the sensor! This meant that the bottom of each image, or the right side of images if I shot vertically, had a very noticeable streaked blob on it.
I'm just glad I noticed it within the first several clicks, so I just reverted to using my D800, and I went home and re-swabbed it again. Thankfully everything worked out fine for the next night's photos! |
