Well, actually, if you shoot RAW the converters eliminate these pixels for you (and it seems that even some tool eliminates them automatically from jpgs).
Jaume ----- Mensaje original ---- De: David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Enviado: miércoles, 28 de mayo, 2008 0:46:40 Asunto: Re: K20D hot pixels issue is due to 2sec MLU Funny, i used my istD for 2 1/2 years and never noticed, or looked for stuck or dead pixels. I lent it to Brother Aaron one day for a Blue Jay baseball game, and he noticed 6 of them. He had to point them out to me, i could not see them. One click of the clone tool fixed all of that.:-) Dave On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jaume Lahuerta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that there is people with lots of free time and that has been able > to isolate the K20D hot pixel issue that has been worrying some reviewers. > According to this thread, the phenomena is UNIVERSAL (it happens in all > K20Ds) and it appears when the mirror locks up for 2 seconds before making > the picture. > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=28079977 > > >From a comment in a blog entry comment: > CONCLUSION: Apparently there is something buggy w/ 2 sec delay and the > sensor/processing > CURRENT SOLUTIONS as proposed by others: > 1)To > avoid this problem with 2s mirror lockup when shooting JPG on a tripod, > one may want to switch long-exposure NR to ON (as opposed to AUTO). > This should avoid the problem in this particular situation. > 2)They > could certainly work around it by activating the dark frame NR whenever > the 2-sec delay is used, and even take the dark frame during the 2-sec. > delay rather than after the exposure. > > Since I don't own this model (although I may be interested in getting one > this year), I can't test it myself, and it doesn't seems a big issue unless > you need jpg+ 2 sec MLU...does it? > > Regards, > Jaume > > > ______________________________________________ > Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. ______________________________________________ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
