Ricoh GR: Dust on the sensor

I really like the Ricoh GR camera (1.5 crop, 16MP), but I admit it has problems.

For example, the dust on the sensor, which appeared and disappeared. And now I see two dust particles that are visible in the image of the sky.

Example of the entire image, f/5.6 (common landscape aperture):

A cropping of these two dust particles from the upper right corner:

Seems like a small thing, but when you see it regularly, it's annoying. I have to remove them programmatically, as I have no desire to disassemble the camera to clean the sensor.

It is especially unfortunate that the problem of dust on the sensor remains with the Ricoh GR III, which attracts new features. The "Dust Removal II" cleaning is of little use.

See also related notes:

• Ricoh GR IV announced (2025-08-23)
• Ricoh GR: once again about dust (2023-08-27)

Image albums:

• Ricoh GR