The most prominent dark spot is at the top center and in this case was caused by dirt or dust on the sensor. In some cases the camera’s built-in sensor cleaning tool might not do the trick. You might take your camera to a professional to have the sensor cleaned, or you can buy a kit and try doing it yourself.

Dark spots on your photos? Learn from my experience.

Dust, dirt, aspect ratios and your aperture setting might be colluding to confuse you about dark spots on your photos.

Duane Craig
3 min readMar 25, 2021

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When I used my 12–60mm zoom lens I’d get dark spots on my pictures. They always showed up in the same places on the images. I never saw any spots on my images when using either of…

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