Does shooting my photos in RAW and converting them help to correct small spots of dust on the lens?

Question

I have found a statement on one of Russian sites:

They (photographs) often shoot in RAW, and it, in turn, removes various small spots in the form of dust on the lens when converting.

Is it true? If yes, how to do this (what converter does this)?

Asked by garik

Answer

That statement from the Russian site is misleading. Shooting in raw format doesn't have any relevance to spot removal. You can remove dust spots just as easily with any other format of image.

There are multiple ways of clearing dust spots:

• Capture NX uses a healing brush
• Lightroom 4 (and below) use the spot removal healing brush
• Photoshop uses a spot removal tool similar to Lightroom

Basically it's just a cloning/healing procedure. But the best fix for dust spots is to clean your sensor.

Answered by nwcs

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