I was yanking your chain too. But there really are some specks in your image that you could probably get rid of. Not likely to be on the close-up lens as that would be far enough away from the sensor (film plane) to be difficult to show up.
Let’s face it, excellent images have been taken for over a hundred years, equipment matters, but at the end of the day it’s how it’s used to the best of it’s abilities that matters.
Unless, off course, one chooses a [cough] Nicon