Speck of dirt in Canon 70-200 2.8 IS USM Lens.

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The lens will focus a circle image onto the back of the camera sensor's area, but only a rectangle area will land on the sensor itself, so the area off the sensor never gets captured in the photo.



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I've taken multiple images and I cannot for the life of me locate the *particle* in the photo even taking an image of a white sheet of paper - it's simply not there.


The particle in question isso tiny that any Joe off the street cannot locate it unless I point it out to them.

I, like others, have high standards and expectations with "L" glass and as such after dishing out some serious coin, I was, frankly, irked that something like this has occurred, but hey, crap happens. Unless I can see it in the image, I'll continue to happily snap away!


Cheers.