{"id":769,"date":"2012-11-19T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T04:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2012-11-23T21:24:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T02:24:59","slug":"a-review-of-the-nikon-d600s-dust-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2012\/a-review-of-the-nikon-d600s-dust-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of the Nikon D600&#8217;s Dust Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a new toy; thought I&#8217;d do a boring technical review for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cY30lEMv8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Nikon D600 should be the perfect enthusiast camera with it&#8217;s fantastic specs, great low light performance, and an affordable price point for a full frame sensor. However, many reviewers and blogs have been raising concerns over a severe dust issue. Dust has reportedly been collecting on the upper left corner of the sensor at an unusually high rate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, only those with a problem will speak out; if they sell a million cameras, and 99% of them are fine, that&#8217;s still 10,000 people hitting the blogs to raise hell over their defective products. <\/p>\n<p>Is the D600 dust issue as bad as the critics claim?<\/p>\n<p>I thought I would put this claim to the test by purchasing a brand new D600, putting on a 50mm 1.8D lens, and shooting some test shots, before using the camera for anything else.<\/p>\n<p>And, from that I&#8217;ve seen, dust on the D600 is indeed a serious issue. Right out of the box, after taking the very first picture, I could see several dust spots, but as my time-lapse series progressed, I could see more and more spots appearing on the sensor. Keep in mind that I am not changing lenses; all this dust is coming from inside the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Where is this dust coming from?<\/p>\n<p>The D600 is a great camera, but do yourself a favour and pick up an extended warranty to go along with it. Trust me, you will be using it.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted unedited copies of the 1st and last image from the timelapse video to flickr:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kyleclements\/8212726092\/sizes\/k\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8488\/8212726092_2a7e66da15_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kyleclements\/8211640921\/sizes\/k\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8484\/8211640921_2784aa138d_z.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1018\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to take a look, download, inspect the exif data, share, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a new toy; thought I&#8217;d do a boring technical review for you. The Nikon D600 should be the perfect enthusiast camera with it&#8217;s fantastic specs, great low light performance, and an affordable price point for a full frame sensor. However, many reviewers and blogs have been raising concerns over a severe dust issue. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2012\/a-review-of-the-nikon-d600s-dust-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A review of the Nikon D600&#8217;s Dust Problem.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[163,160,161,84,15,162,76],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moneystuff","category-uncategorized","tag-bug","tag-d600","tag-dust","tag-nikon","tag-photography","tag-problem","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}