So I got a NEX-5n on Thursday, with only the 18-55 lens, already mounted, never changed the lens, but by Friday, I already had a dust spot on it that it's own cleaning mode would not remove. I did get it off with I blower that I had from my Canon 5D mk1 days, but this is giving me 5D flashbacks. Is anyone else having dust problems with the NEX-5 or was this just a fluke?
It's an unfortunate side-product of Mirrorless and exposed sensors, especially for cameras which lack Oly's great anti-dust tech (which Panasonic also uses). So yes, the NEXen are dust magnets.
My experience is the opposite. My NEX 5N has 8K+ shots, only with primes, which means changing lenses quite often, and in the field. I have yet to need a sensor clean of any kind. My NEX 5 before it was the same. Sorry to be the odd one out.
Any camera with an exposed sensor is a dust magnet, it really is that simple.
The NEX5N is exposed and prone to dust bunnies by default. Shake and bake sensors will also gather blobs with time.
Philber lives in a country with apparently permanent vacuum so he will always have clean sensors. Lucky guy.
With the M9 I was pretty lucky, but with time accumulated dust will inevitably be visible, a blob here and a blob there.
