{"id":62,"date":"2006-01-29T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2006-01-29T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T20:46:00","slug":"nikon-d70-dust-spot-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/nikon-d70-dust-spot-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon D70 dust spot rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling the need to rant about the Nikon Service department.  A couple of months ago, I encountered the dreaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/23389.html\">dust spot<\/a> issue on my Nikon D70.  I decided to send the camera in to Nikon Service for a sensor cleaning because I wasn&#8217;t comfortable with doing this myself. Fifty dollars (this is not covered under the warranty) and 6 weeks later I get the camera back. I take some test photos&#8230; and discover that the dust spot problem just got worse!!!  Are there any other Nikon owners out there who have had a similar problem with Nikon Service???  And for those of you who are digital SLR users who change lenses from time to time, have you ever experienced the dust spot issue?<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/92881441\/?#comment24658322\">&gt;&gt; discussion thread on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2\/1\/05 Update:<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Nikon about this and they were very responsive.  They sent me a UPS shipping label and they will re-do the cleaning for free.  I&#8217;m still not happy with the results of the initial cleaning but at least they are making good on this.  In the future I&#8217;m going to try out the do-it-yourself approach using the cleaning kit that was mentioned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/92881441\/?#comment24658322\">Flickr thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/92881441\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/24\/92881441_ff6deb8823.jpg\" alt=\"Nikon D70 dust spot rant\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/digital%20slr\" rel=\"tag\">Digital SLR<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/nikon%20d70\" rel=\"tag\">Nikon D70<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/nikon\" rel=\"tag\">Nikon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling the need to rant about the Nikon Service department. A couple of months ago, I encountered the dreaded dust spot issue on my Nikon D70. I decided to send the camera in to Nikon Service for a sensor cleaning because I wasn&#8217;t comfortable with doing this myself. Fifty dollars (this is not covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-photography","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}