Terry did some online research - and discovered that finding dust inside the camera lens was a common problem with my Lumix. Simply turning the camera off - the lens moving inside the camera - drew dust in.
He showed me a You Tube clip on taking the camera apart to clean it. I quickly decided it was too complicated for me! But it did make me understand why camera shops charged over $100 to take the camera apart and clean it.
Another solution jumped out at me - from something I read somewhere: Try vacuuming the lens.
So I attached the round brush to the vacuum cleaner and turned it on. I placed it over the lens, then turned the camera on - so that the lens would come out. I did this three or four times...
Then I took a close-up of a white door.
It looked a lot cleaner than the picture I took prior to cleaning the camera. Not perfect, but a whole lot better!
(And a whole lot cheaper!)
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