John, can it be that any authorized camera service willing give your sensor a proper cleaning would do? It seems to me that an experienced camera technician (not necessarily exclusive to Pentax brand) could help you and obviously, to clean a sensor won't cost you an arm and a leg.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:59 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > If you take a look at the four pictures in the following gallery, you > will see two little blobs on the right side that become clearer as the > aperture is stopped down: > > http://imgur.com/a/IG40x > (to see an image at full resolution, hover your mouse over the image, > click the gear icon that appears and select "view full resolution.") > > The blob closer to the center is probably regular old dust that would > go away with a puff from a blower ball. The other blob (the darker one > closer to the right side), however, is a problem. It won't go away > with air or Sensor Swabs. I even took a risk and tried a compressed > air blast once. No dice. > > I'm worried it may be some sort of actual damage to the sensor, even > though I can't really think of anything that could have caused that. > > My question is, which of the following would you do: > > A) Send it to Pentax/CRIS and see what they say. I'm worried this will > be very expensive (as in, replace-the-sensor expensive), and I don't > have the money to spend on repairs right now. > B) Deal with it in Photoshop until a replacement for the K-5 comes > out, and then start saving to get that. (I'm nearly finished paying > off the last of my recession-incurred debts, so saving will be much > easier starting this fall) > > Other ideas would be welcome, too. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
