On 4 Apr 2004 at 17:37, Ramesh Kumar wrote: > I ran http://www.starzen.com/imaging/deadpixeltest.htm > on my *istD and following are the results( shown > against "Results" in the dialogbox). > > I am running 1.11 firmware and shot with lens cap on. > Test1 uses TIFF & Test2 is RAW. > > I have doubts > 1) Why am I getting so many dead pixels? > 2) Why are H/D pixles jump to Megs? > 3) Have I got really bad piece? > 4) Is this because of bad firmware?
No idea, can you send me the test results as a text file given the following test parameters? 10 seconds manual exposure (lens capped) 200ISO Daylight WB NR off Saturation setting (middle) Sharpness setting (left most) Contrast setting (left most) sRGB CS TIFF L file The tiff file can then be opened and tested under the default settings of the DeadPixelTest application and the information file saved. Using the above method my results were as follows: [DeadPixelText] Version=1.0 Description= FileType=TIFF NumBadPixels=15 0=Hot,2798,135,69 1=Hot,1954,339,113 2=Hot,1809,585,64 3=Hot,726,610,112 4=Hot,726,611,192 5=Hot,726,612,112 6=Hot,2312,753,121 7=Hot,323,766,94 8=Hot,572,1365,116 9=Hot,1627,1400,64 10=Hot,2163,1958,96 11=Hot,2162,1959,113 12=Hot,2163,1959,145 13=Hot,2164,1959,112 14=Hot,2163,1960,98 >From what I have seen of other results this is pretty average. I will make an effort to tabulate all the results that I have received to date and I will put up a page in the next day or two. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
