--- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's very rare that a manufacturer would do much for > one dead or hot > pixel. Most consider warranty work for 25 to 100 > dead or blown > pixels, depending upon their distribution. After > all, 1 dead pixel in > 10.1 million is barely worth worrying about... It's > worth a phone > call to Pentax Customer Service, however, to get > their specific policy.
Seems reasonable. I don't know whether I would even want a new sensor for just one blown pixel anyway. Just curious... > > Camera Raw, Lightroom and other RAW conversion > software perform dead/ > hot pixel replacement during RAW conversion so they > are rarely a > problem. Vuescan does not, so I use it to determine > when I have hot > or dead pixels ... otherwise I wouldn't know. I'm > not yet very > familiar with the Apple RAW converter, don't know > what it does. > > Godfrey Camera Raw must have been compensating for it then since I only noticed it today on my most recent import on the MAC. Doesn't look like the Aperture default settings do anything to cover them up. Anyway, no biggie. I'll learn to ignore it. -Brendan > > On Mar 18, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > > > Noticed today importing into Aperture. Slightly > bummed out. > > > > Anyone know if it's covered under Pentax's > warranty? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
