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Leave it a while longer if you can bear them - it stops after a few thousand actuations and you don't want to be poking the sensor with a cotton bud too often...

I was thinking the same thing... it's only showing with F16+, which I have been using a lot with the sunny weather...I have managed to use a rocket blower to get rid of a few of the big ones but there are a few just wouldn't go away, they are clearly visible on the sensor when pointing a light to it... the mirror is also horrible with loads of marks (nor dust) on it... is it OK to just us a cloth to clean the mirror gently?

Oops, it's showing from F11 onwards...

Yeh, use a microfibre cloth gently to clean the mirror. Is it too late to take it back?

It's too late now, I have had it for almost 2 months. Fixation says they can clean it for free under the Nikon promise for all D600 users, but I am sure they won't want to clean the mirror too... Just did a quick search on the Internet, it seems like everything is saying don't even touch the mirror coz it's delicate etc, but surly it's not made of tissue paper? And I have just cleaned it and now I am worried I might have caused some damage that isn't visible to the eye as gentleness is totally subjective. If I did in fact stupid enough to have caused damage, would it be visible to the eye and what would happen to the images? Cheers

Nah, the mirror will be fine. It's tough enough to flap about thousands of times a day so wiping it won't hurt - just don't press on it. It's only there for metering and the viewfinder.

Fixation are really good, I would trust them more than anyone with repair stuff. Is the free cleaning a one-time only thing or can you just keep getting it done?

Cheers mate, I was just worried there for a moment coz of the silver coating being on the front and generally how people blow things out of proportion on the Internet. Might try to sweet talk them into giving a a clean also. I am a little obsessed with cleanliness...

I shall report back to you tomorrow about the free cleaning offer. When I bought the camera, they said they just clean the D600 whether you buy the body from them or not and invoice Nikon for it, so I guess you can have it cleaned as many times as they think the spots are caused by the mysterious oil/dust issue rather than from the day to day use. But then I think it's a judgement call. I don't know. They might turn around and say no to me tomorrow. Will let you know.

Took this today with my iPhone, edited with vsco cam

You got me!

[I find VSCO cam really awkward to use. Snapseed is my favourite for iOS editing: great interface IMO.]

I prefer the orginal VSCO cam to the new one, I find it so awkward to use too.

Really? I like it, the interface is super nice I think. Took a while to learn though, but now I like it. Only thing I miss is the ability to add a tiny bit of vignette

Can someone recommend a "advanced" compact type thing for £100-£200 for me to buy ASAP. Second hand is fine.

I bought a camera a few days ago, ordered a bunch of pricey memory cards then destroyed the camera by dropping it onto rocks before the memory cards even arrived!

I am intrigued by the Samsung EX2F because of the wifi thing. Also the 1.4 aperture must make for nice video. I dont have a good phone so taking decent pictures and uploading them is a faff. Wifi in the camera would be great.

Although, maybe I should get a regular camera and upgrade my phone for such duties?

If I could find the ex2f for <£200 Id get it in a heartbeat but it is more like £250

I got my Fuji X10 recently for £200 and I'm loving it

^ Much better choice. Haven't handled the samsung you talk about, but i tried a similar looking one a while ago and it felt really brittle and cheap

where did you find it for £200?

Avforums but that seemed the going price on eBay too

To well is it: just picked up my D600 back from Fixation. They will clean the D600 bodies for as many times as you need to for as long as the offer from Nikon lasts, which they don't know how much longer this might last. We were joking that I will be back in a couple of weeks time again... let's hope not.

And the turnaround time is about 1 hr.

Can someone recommend a "advanced" compact type thing for £100-£200 for me to buy ASAP. Second hand is fine.

I bought a camera a few days ago, ordered a bunch of pricey memory cards then destroyed the camera by dropping it onto rocks before the memory cards even arrived!

I am intrigued by the Samsung EX2F because of the wifi thing. Also the 1.4 aperture must make for nice video. I dont have a good phone so taking decent pictures and uploading them is a faff. Wifi in the camera would be great.

Although, maybe I should get a regular camera and upgrade my phone for such duties?

If I could find the ex2f for <£200 Id get it in a heartbeat but it is more like £250

ehum: http://www.lfgss.com/thread108360.html

you got a lens I could use on it?

I think I have decided to go for a canon EOS M, because I have other canon SLR lenses knocking around.

Ahhh...all these problems of dust and oil! It just makes me sad! My lovely D200 has been dropped, slapped, punched, watered, used as an offensive weapon, fallen off a moving motorcycle, actually gotten me laid, used as as a glove, as a disco stick even as a door stop.

Still works flawlessly. I'll upgrade at some point sure, but this thing is going with me to the grave.

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I think I have decided to go for a canon EOS M, because I have other canon SLR lenses knocking around.

Interesting choice! They caught my eye too before.

Keep in mind though that it's not ef-mount, it's eos-m mount, that can take ef lenses with an adapter. + eos lenses are rather big, so in a way defeats the purpose. That said, it looks like in interesting system.

And no, no lenses to go with the gx1, but you can pick them up cheap 2nd hand on the bay. 20mm pancake is lovely.

EOS M is more money than I wanted to spend.

I really wanted a compact or small bridge cam, nothing is taking my fancy though. Panasonic TZ30 is £150 right now but I am finding it hard to get excited about it. The main feature of those cams tends to be the zoom. Already have a good canon zoom lens that seldom gets used.

Would like wide and large aperture options, this for the MFT cameras although possible seems like a big investment, as much as the lenses I already have for canon SLR.

I co own with my brother, a Sigma 10-20mm lens which is dope as hell. Also the ubiquitous nifty fifty as well as a zoom lens Canon USM 18-85 (which is boring but good for action stuff)

The EOS-M with the F/2 22mm prime seems very attractive. Will be as small as a chunky compact with this lens on and usable for most things I like to take pictures of. Can carry 50mm prime or the big lenses I have as required.

Can also do proper SLR video stuff, it even has a Microphone jack.

So if I can find it at the right price, seems like a good choice.

Kept crop factor in mind for the above?

Has aps-c sensor, same as the SLR's I have access to.

Never even used a full frame cam!