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It&#8217;s been a good experience so far but, yesterday afternoon, I experienced a small disaster as not only dust but a tiny hair had appeared on all of the images I took, indicating that I had some sort of debris on my sensor (actually, it&#8217;s on the anti-aliasing filter, not the sensor but that&#8217;s being pedantic&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Being in the middle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowdonia-npa.gov.uk\/\">Snowdonia National Park<\/a> (albeit in overcast\/wet weather) and on a course where I would take a lot of photos, this was not exactly welcome and I feared I&#8217;d need a costly professional sensor clean (after a weekend of creating images with hair on them). No-one in the class had any sensor cleaning swabs (not that I&#8217;ve ever used them, and I would have been a little nervous too on my still-in-warranty Nikon D700) but, luckily, one of the guys passed me an air blower and said &#8220;try this &#8211; but make sure you hold the camera body face down as you use it!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With the mirror locked up, I puffed some air around inside the body (it&#8217;s important not to use compressed air for this) and took a reference image &#8211; thankfully the debris was gone (and, because the front of the camera was facing down, it should have fallen out, not gone further back into the camera).<\/p>\n<p>I breathed a big sigh of relief and thanked my fellow classmate. In just over a week its the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus-on-imaging.co.uk\/\">Focus on Imaging<\/a> exhibition &#8211; hopefully I&#8217;ll get along to it and one of the items on my shopping list will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-digital-picture.com\/Reviews\/Giottos-Rocket-Air-Blower-Review.aspx\">Giottos Rocket Air Blower<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, I&#8217;m attending photography workshop in North Wales, learning a bit more about digital photographic imaging. 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