Further note; I find it a bit ironic that there is such emphasis placed by folks on lens quality, ccd sensor size/quality...yet at the same time they are 1) willing to live with dust spots that need to be cloned out of images, and 2) at the same time they will not accept a dead sensor pixel that is in fact much smaller than a dust spot and can also be cloned out.... Would you be happy with a brand new lens that exhibited a "spot" on every film image you took? Not me....but you can clone it out they would say...lol!

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