Hot pixels, cold pixels, I dunno. My K20 takes great pictures, and I'm too busy shooting to test. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I ran the Starzen test on my K20. > I used 1/4 second so as to not invoke the you can't turn it off noise > reduction, > and saved the > file as a best quality JPEG rather than as a RAW file to avoid ACR. > I had to drop the threshold for finding hot pixels to 6 before finding any. > This is, on the surface, very good performance, although it is hard to say > what > was hidden in > the jpeg conversion, and it doesn't address any firmware routines that may be > hiding dead pixels > as well. > > The problem that DPReview is having is that they have recieved a couple of > cameras which have > mobile dead pixels. > Dead pixels are a fact of life, having them move around the sensor from > capture > to capture is > unique to the K20, apparently no other DSLR manages this feat, and it is > considered to be a very > bad thing, either a hardware problem that is badly covered up in the > firmware, > or else some sort > of bug in the firmware. > > I just thought I'd pass this on to the team. > For myself, hopefully it won't affect my ability to use the camera, but we > should, perhaps, go a > bit easier on the boys at DPReview. They have discovered quite a serious > problem > with the K20. > > William Robb > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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