Digital SLR Dust Removal Tested

PixInfo have tested the effectiveness of the built in dust - removal systems in the latest digital cameras such as the Olympus E-400 (pictured), Canon EOS 400D, Pentax K10D and Sony Alpha A100, and found some interesting results:

"Our goal was to set up a controlled environment to get the image sensors of digital cameras dirty and test how effective the different cameras' sensor cleaning technologies are. It is well known fact (and it is a bit over dramatized) that digital SLR cameras are very sensitive to the dust particles found in the air. These particles can settle on the image sensor, and will show up on the images as dark spots when the image is taken with a small aperture (high F number)."

Read our Olympus E-400 Digital SLR Review
View our Olympus E-400 Sample Photo Gallery