On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:47 AM, mike wilson wrote:
You have _no_ hot/dead pixels? Anyone else?
No, I wouldn't say that I have no hot or dead pixels -- someone previously said that the camera's software knows where these pixels are and compensates in some way. However, I do not get these spots like what you saw in the link I put up previously. Knowing now that these are sensor defects, if that were my camera I would have returned it as unacceptable -- there are probably a dozen.
The whole point of shooting digital, for me, is faster turnaround. Why should I expect to spend time in post for this? It's also the same reason I'm not shooting RAW -- if I want to spend time afterwards to work on the photographs, I'll shoot 6x7 and scan it and get a better result.
We'll see if any of these spots manifest themselves after shooting for three or four hours at ISO 1600 the whole time on Thursday night. But even in casual use, those spots were all over Dave Brooks' D (sorry Dave). I have not yet seen a single image with these spots out of my DS2 (going on 5000 images).
Could this simply be improved software on the camera? -Aaron
