Eclectus parrot photographed with D600 camera in 2012

 

Up to this point, all of my DSLR bodies have had APS-C sized sensors (DX).  They have a crop factor of 1.5, meaning that a 50 mm lens performs like a 75 mm lens.  The smaller sensor requires the individual wells making up the pixel-capturing cell of the sensor are very small and crammed tightly together.  

A full-frame camera body does not have a crop factor (FX).  The D600 was the first full-frame DSLR I ever owned.  For it I purchased a 28-300 FX lens that allowed me to shoot full frame without having to severely crop images.  I used many other lenses of course, but the photo above was taken with that particular lens.

The camera itself was good, but it suffered from having oil microdroplets fall on the sensor from the shutter.  This caused black dots and smudges to appear on the image - and always at the same place.  I had to get the mechanism replaced with Nikon footing the bill.  They in fact did this to all of the D600s and D800s that they sold.  That must have cost them quite a bundle.  You can see an example of a dirty sensor below.


After I got the camera fixed I had no further problems with it and took many thousands of photos with it.  I owned it for 6 years and eventually sold it and replaced it with a Nikon D750.

Thanks for reading.

Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com 


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