[Paladin2]

Just how does dust get on a digital photograph?

[Pontiac]

Digital cameras still have lenses.

Some digital SLRs still have mirrors.

[Covenantor]

Just how does dust get on a digital photograph?

Professional quality Digital SLR's (single lens reflex) cameras have the capacity to use various focal length lenses, wide-angle, telephoto, zoom, etc. During the lens changing operation, both the mirror and digital sensors are subject to dust intrusion, especailly in a war zone. However, almost all have sonic dust 'puffers' just for the purpose of removing the dust. I'm more amused by the claim of working under 'bad conditions'. If he could power up his lap top and see the backlit screen, he could see enough to know exactly what he was doing. Another lying POS jihadi 5th columnist. so to speak.

[samiam230]

Just how does dust get on a digital photograph?

The dust is not "on" the digital photograph (i.e. image). Rather the dust is on the camara lens or sensor (which happes quite often when you are taking photographs in a desert), resulting in the splotches on the photograph. In fact, sensor dust on digital cameras is SO common, that there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of websites available on how to clean the dust off your sensor and off your images. A small sampling follows:

example 1 example 2 example 3 example 4 example 5 example 6 example 7 example 8 example 9

and on and on and on. Try Googling it:

[Psycho_Runner]

Just how does dust get on a digital photograph?

Quite easily, dirt sometimes get in the camera and it shows up as spots on the raw image. the problem I have with Reuters BS is that it is very easy to remove the spots using the spot healer instead of the clone tool. The other problem I have is I wonder if the photographer was using a licensed copy of photoshop? I dropped $600 for CS2. I will put money that rutters goes to low budget photographers.