Argh! Dead pixels? Canon A70.

[Christopher]

Last weekend I was doing some shooting, and noticed a red dot on the preview LCD on my Canon A70. I was hoping it was just a stuck pixel on the LCD, but it seems to show up in photos too.

This is a crop from a full resolution ultra-fine photo of a black background with no flash. The red pixel and the blue one appear to be "stuck".

Anyone else ever seen this on a digital camera, and if so, did you do anything to fix it. Should I worry about it?

 

[[TQ]]

Take the camera into a dark closet, put the lens cap on and take a very long picture 30 seconds or so. Then take a look at what comes up in the photo. Shoot at the lowest ISO btw

 

[FLECOM]

99% of all cameras have dead or hot pixles... my 10D has like 2 or three... you usually only notice it when you take pics of completele black tho...

if they are impacting your pics you might try taking it back to where you bought it

 

[royjr]

Originally posted by [TQ]
Take the camera into a dark closet, put the lens cap on and take a very long picture 30 seconds or so. Then take a look at what comes up in the photo. Shoot at the lowest ISO btw

There's no lens cap with Canon's P-n-S cams.

The 2/3" CCD sensor is so small, and has so much noise, it's too difficult to differentiate between. It's not like D-SLR. As well, neither is the cleaning process. Basically, one of three things:

- Deal with the hot/dead pixels.
- See if an 'authorized' Canon dealer will disassemble and clean it.
- RMA it

 

[agentzero9]

Originally posted by royjr
There's no lens cap with Canon's P-n-S cams.

The 2/3" CCD sensor is so small,

2/3 and 3mp? Haha in your dreams.


Try 1/2.7"

 

[maw]

Originally posted by FLECOM
99% of all cameras have dead or hot pixles... my 10D has like 2 or three... you usually only notice it when you take pics of completele black tho...

if they are impacting your pics you might try taking it back to where you bought it

i agree. a couple if dead pixels in all likelyhood won't affect your images. Unless of course, you like taking pictures of complete black. In which case a couple of seconds with your favorite touch-up tool should take care of it

 

[royjr]

Originally posted by agentzero9
2/3 and 3mp? Haha in your dreams.


Try 1/2.7"

Correction. Thank you.

 

[PurdueDood]

Since hot/dead pixels are always in the same place..

Go into photoshop and make a mask for all of your photos.

The dead-pixels will be assigned a value that is the average of the 8 pixels that surround the dead-pixel.

I have it set up for each of my cameras.

-PD

 

[wtf]

1 year warranty

 

[Quiglag]

Originally posted by PurdueDood
Since hot/dead pixels are always in the same place..

Go into photoshop and make a mask for all of your photos.

The dead-pixels will be assigned a value that is the average of the 8 pixels that surround the dead-pixel.

I have it set up for each of my cameras.

-PD

How do you make a mask like the one you talk about in PS?

 

[Adam]

Im sending my camera in tommorrow. I have a buncha dead pixels. My nikons past its 1 year warranty but i bought a MACK 5 year warranty for it. If they can't fix it, they'll replace the camera according to their information.

 

[twelveparsex]

after about 6 years my camera started getting a bunch of stuck pixels. sony s50