[benjimouse]

Maybe I'm less fussy than others, but I've never understood why people are so obsessed with making sure their sensor is spotless. If a dust spot is in a place it's easy to see in the resulting image, then it's trivial to remove it in post. If it's somewhere that's hard to remove, then it's not noticeable. Maybe my standards are low :)

[mastazi]

Like in any field, when you go from hobby to doing it as a job, any trivial task becomes a problem if you have to repeat it dozens of times per month.

Perhaps you can create a macro to apply the same edit automatically to all your imported pictures. In a fast paced industry like news, that's still an unwelcome overhead though.

[sudosysgen]

You don't have to create a macro. Any good photo editor will let you copy/paste an edit template on a thousand photos instantly.

[mastazi]

I’m not familiar with edit templates, they would be ok as long as they can be stored for later reuse, this is because the typical workflow in news is that you don’t edit 300 photos all at once at the end of the month, it’s more like: you edit 10 photos every day, and sometimes you edit 5 of them at noon and another 5 at 6pm (numbers and times are made up obviously).