Afterthought ; I've seen you were using the camera at 1600 ISO - have you tried lower settings? Might be weaknesses in the system - still in they tolerance range - but that would show only when ISO is set very high- but that's just one more guess Phileica David Young wrote: >Good Mornin' All! > >For a reasonably busy list, it's been pretty quite the last couple of >days... everyone taking fall holidays? > >Anyway, I have an odd question... > >I'm getting spots on my LeiCanon shots and I'd like to know what causes >them... > >If you go to http://www3.telus.net/telyt and click on "Featured Photo", >you'll see the problem. > >Above the Heron's head, just to the left of his eye, and half way >between the top of his head and the top of the photo, you'll see a >small, round, translucent gray spot. Where the feathers end, underneath >his bill, and down just a bit, you'll see another. There are a couple >of weaker ones... the first half way between his neck and the left side >of the shot, about 40% of the way up from the bottom, and another in the >dark band above it, and a bit to the right. Lastly, there is a weak one >toward the upper left corner. > >To me, they look like water spots on a negative... but these are digital >shots - so we're short one negative! > >I'm told that dirt on the sensor will leave white specks, as the dust >blocks the light from the pixels. So these aren't dirt. > >They are in all my shots, I'm sure, but only show in the even, light >areas. Worse, the position of the spots seems to change, between photos! > >They're not a problem to eliminate with the Healing tool in PS, but I >wonder... What are they? Am I the only one to have them? And... what >do I do about them? > >Any help/thoughts greatly appreciated. > >Cheers! > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/