Hi all,

thank you for all your replies.

Here's what I did (stupidly). I put my Digital Rebel in sensor cleaning mode, and was blowing the sensor off with the little hand blower. Since I wasn't thinking, I left the brush on and accidently touched the sensor with the brush, and it left a big smear. Ugh!!!

I ended up getting all the smears off with some lens cleaner on a qtip and such. But of course, my 1 spot of dust turned into dozens! After much work, I got it so it's not horrible, although there's still around 10 seeable spots (when a white piece of paper is shot in Av mode, Fstop 22).

Now, most shots none of the dust shows up. Here's my next question... am I ok not to take it in to get it cleaned until it becomes a problem? Or is leaving the dust on the sensor a bad idea?

I totally agree with Zeldie in that cleaning the sensor is very stressful (if your goal is to completely rid it of dust). It pretty much ruined my weekend and I'm still stressing over it.

Thanks.

-Melen