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I find it hard to believe that many photographers regularly use photoshop to clone out dust on their digital photographs. The problem is that few digital camera manufacturers take the issue seriously. Even the most expensive and sophisticated of digital SLR cameras have this problem…apart from Olympus.

I can safely state that having travelled around the world and changed my lenses in all kinds of situations, that I have never ever had any dust on the sensor of my Olympus Camera. I find it truly incredible that other manufacturers do not take this seriously. In fact I have seen some photographers even make apologies for this state of affairs saying things like ‘it really isn’t too much of a chore to remove spots in photoshop, or clean the sensor’ (yeah right!!).

Recently, a number of manufacturers have taken some steps to catch up with Olympus on this, but just simply fail to properly address the issue. Lete me re-itterate, I have never had a single spot of dust on my Olympus sensor. Most of the newer attempts to address this by other companies just do not work as effectively as the Olympus solution, mainly due to the fact that they use a low sensor shake speed compared to Olympus.

So, if you know nothing about digital SLR’s, and want to buy one, just be aware, that you may have to clean the sensor (dangerous and difficult) or spot out spots of dust on every picture you take. You could of course buy an olympus.

I should point out I have no financial connection with Olympus, I just find it dumb that top photographers put up with this. Think about it, a 4 grand camera, and it suffers from this problem.

Many apologies. The Galleries did not seem to work correctly with some computers, but seem OK now……

Have a look at the galleries at www.timbles.org

So, after the ‘official’ world tour, we are now in what might be called the ‘fringe’ world tour. We didn’t really go back home.

No instead, we are now in a Spanish Island in the atlantic ocean, just off the coast of Africa. Gran Canaria is very warm.

One of the great beaches in Gran Canaria

You may notice I’ve deleted the pictures from the blog, as I was running out of free space. I’m going to put hi resolution versions on a web gallery on my own domain. In the meantime, you’ll just have to imagine the pictures…

More updates soon.