How to Remove Dust From Your Nikon DSLR
A couple of days ago I had a small classmates reunion at which I was the only one taking shots with a DSLR (Nikon D5000), so people had some expectations for my photos :)
After about 20 minutes of searching and reading, I was rather surprised to find out about hot pixels on dslr cameras. In short, a hot pixel is a pixel on your digital sensor and it is much more sensitive to light. Thus they usually appear as bright red/green/yellow pixels. New dead pixels appear from time to time, usually after a couple of months from buying the camera… Mine appeared after 1 week.
Reading about it more, I found out that I could send my Nikon D5000 to Nikon service and they would fix the issue… that is not the best option, as I live in about 2000km from the place where I bought the camera, and there are no official dealerships where I live.
