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After one hour, 38 Q-tips, several test photos and lots of swearing I finally got rid of the newly accumulated sensor dust.
Some additions to yesterday's entry:
At last, I've edited and uploaded the photos of this year's trip to Utah. Sorry, again no photos from Novell Brainshare (hence the folder name.) ;-)
Hooray, the Sigma DC 17-70/2.8-4.5 lens arrived yesterday and today I made some test shots. Apparently I've got one of the correctly calibrated lenses. Accurately aligned centering, auto focus is working well -- apart from aparture 2.8 in some situations, which is a limitation of Canon consumer DSLRs and not a fault of the lens (I can reproduce it with a fixed length 28/2.8 Canon lens, BTW.) I'm looking forward making some nice pictures at Anthrocon with the lens.
Remember my vacation reports from January? Well, I've got the photographs cleaned-up (f...ing sensor dust!), cropped, scaled and uploaded at last.
One of the disadvantages of a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) over its analogue predecessor is the dust that accumulates on the sensor over time:
As yesterday was not only a national holiday but it also was raining cats and dogs, I edited and sorted my photos at last. The photos have a vastly varying quality. The animal park pictures are edited and their colour adjusted for LCD screen. All others aren't.
After fighting my way through various undocumented features and weird bugs of Google Earth, I've managed to generate a .kml file which connects my vacation photos with the location logged by the GPS receiver at the time. Which is quite cool, as I tend to forget where exactly I took a photo...