• 07-04-2004, 02:05 PM
    klw777
    minolta dimage z1 'soft spot' on images
    Hello!

    I am new to this and wondered if you can help?

    I bought a minolta dimage z1 a few months ago and in the past week all the images have a kind of soft, blurred spot on them. Always in the same place?

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks

    Kirsty :confused:
  • 07-04-2004, 06:22 PM
    SmartWombat
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by klw777
    I bought a minolta dimage z1 a few months ago and in the past week all the images have a kind of soft, blurred spot on them. Always in the same place?
    Any thoughts?
    If it's only been happening in the past week, I'd suspect a dirty lens.
    Can you see anything on the front of the lens?
    A finger mark maybe?
    Or a spot left there from rain?

    Funny story, I wore a yellow T-shirt to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and was THE favourite person for all the bugs :) A lot of photos were lost to small beetles crawling over the lens and the resulting dark splodge in the image :(
  • 07-05-2004, 01:10 AM
    klw777
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SmartWombat
    If it's only been happening in the past week, I'd suspect a dirty lens.
    Can you see anything on the front of the lens?
    A finger mark maybe?
    That was so obvious that it was painful......................how dozey am I!! :D

    Thanks v much, there is a huge finger print on the lens................... :rolleyes: