I think that this program just marks bad pixels so that they are interpolated from neighboring pixels when picture is saved to memory card.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Oswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Hot pixels > My suspicion is that it is probably not real good for the CCD chip to > run this "program" too often. Don't think of it as wiping the > black-board. Think of it as sanding and retexturing the surface of the > blackboard. You only have so many times you can do that sort of thing > before the surface wears thin. :) At best, this is a rough comparison. > But it is entirely possible that the energy used to wake up bad CCD > pixels is enough to do some degree of wear on all pixels. > > If that is the case, Pentax may have not made it a built-in feature out > of fear that people might go nuts and do it every few days until the CCD > chip is toast. > > This is all speculation. Maybe an engineer could chime in. ;) > > > > > Frits W�thrich wrote: > > on my Olympus digital P&S this is build in. Olympus advises to run this > > once a year. > > pity Pentax didn't do this > > > > > > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 17:11, David Zaninovic wrote: > > FJW> They should give us the program so we don't have to wait 4 weeks for > > this. > > FJW> > > FJW> ----- Original Message ----- > > FJW> From: "Peter Smekal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > FJW> To: <[email protected]> > > FJW> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:59 AM > > FJW> Subject: Re: Hot pixels > > FJW> > > FJW> > > FJW> > Interesting. So they just "eliminate" the hot pixels with a program. > > Do you > > FJW> > think they could do the same with stuck pixels? > > FJW> > Peter >
