CCD Dead Pixel??

It can't realistically be fixed. The CCD would have to be replaced which would require considerable realignment and recalibration.

It's also not unusual. If your camera has even one-million pixels -- much less five- or ten-million -- the odds that one will be bad are quite good.
 
Well I would probably buy that new camera you've been wanting, but in the world of extremely high resolution CCD's filling the pixel with surrounding colors in a photoapplication would be realistic.
 
yeah
It's 8 megapixel Canon S80
I have had it for 2 years
Maybe that is the lifespan of a ccd that has taken 6000 pictures? :eek:
I take care of it
But it rattles in my pocket sometimes

I could crop it out I guess on most pictures
Would have to frame my picture shots different

Circuit City has the Canon G9's for $439
I guess I'll go buy it tommorow

One of my gaming buddies said I should "reset" it to the factory settings
Or maybe change resoultion
perhas it is a cache issue
I kinda doubt it

I will call Canon tomorrow
If it's under 75 bucks to fix I might do it......
 
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is that it? The healing brush in Photoshop or any other application should be able to at least correct that. To me it wouldn't be worth buying a whole new camera for that.
 
Chiro75 said:
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is that it? The healing brush in Photoshop or any other application should be able to at least correct that. To me it wouldn't be worth buying a whole new camera for that.
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LOL
Yeah yeah
I know
I'm being picky
It's the principle of the matter
T Rock's Visual Vices don't like NO dead pixels..Period :mad:

The dude at the camera store said Canon was announcing 5 new cameras tomorrow
I really want one with a BIG sensor
Mine is 1.5"..The G9 is 1.7"

I think it may be what is know as a HOT pixel as opposed to a STUCK pixel===>
http://webpages.charter.net/bbiggers/DCExperiments/html/hot_pixels.html

I did a test on ISO 100 and it showed up at 1 second exposure in the dark
I couldn't see it at 3 seconds or 1/5, 1/10 or 1/2
They can be "fixed" by remapping the chip apparently
I still gotta call Canon

I can get around 250+ for my camera and all the accessories I got if I put it on EBAY
170 bucks for 2+ years is not too bad for my S80 I guess
I've taken about 6K pictures with it

I am pretty much addicted to HI RES photos
I sell my large 8 MP prints for about 400 bucks a piece
12MP will be even better


The G9 has RAW format which is something I want to mess around with :thumbup:
 
Dead pixels on CCDs or LCDs are a fact of life unfortunately. Often a manufacturer wouldn't even replace it for just one failed pixel - its 'within manufacturing tolerances'
 
bladefixation2 said:
Dead pixels on CCDs or LCDs are a fact of life unfortunately. Often a manufacturer wouldn't even replace it for just one failed pixel - its 'within manufacturing tolerances'
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Exactly. And he more pixels your camera has, the more likely it is that there will be at least one dead one... and the more pixels you have, the more dead ones there will be. When you have ten million of something and you paid a few hundred dollars for them, the chances that they'll all be perfect is about zero.

At the factory, when the camera is made, the bad pixels can be "mapped out." How that's done is part of what distinguishes better cameras. Cheap cameras ignore them. Good ones map bad pixels to 18% grey, something like that. Better ones map the bad pixel to, for example, the color of the pixel immediately to the bad pixel's left. The best cameras map the bad pixel to the average of all eight adjacent pixels.

It's all part of the "sausage making" of digital photography.
 
At the factory, when the camera is made, the bad pixels can be "mapped out."
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That is how the "repair" them too
From what I read
You can't tell where they mapped out the bad pixel
Supposedly

Canon's policy on bad LCD SCREEN pixels is 99.97%

Canon wants 139 bucks to fix/"remap" the CCD
Or
I can use Canon's Loyalty Program and "upgrade" to a refurbished G9 for 350 bucks :mad:
I can get a new G9 for about 420
The guy who is selling the G9's for 420 bucks said I can return it within 7 days if there is a dead pixel on the CCD:thumbup:
I don't mind a dead pixel on the LCD

I am ordering the G9 tonight
Early X-Mas present to myself I guess....
 
I would venture to say that virtually every digital camera out there has at least one (or more hot/dead pixel.

I've got a D300 and a D40, and both have more than one. Mine are red, and not as noticable as your white one.

I would venture to guess that yours don't show in every pic. If you get a shot that you are in love with and want to blow it up, you can fix that in post very easily.
If I were you, I would live with it until I came up wtih a better reason to upgrade my equipment.
 
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