Thanks for the replies.
The camera itself is in fine working order. It's just that I've
recently seen more and more hot pixels (and they're really not that
bad, just usually right where I don't need them). I normally shoot
JPG and do minimum PP via an older version of Photoshop Elements.
Maybe
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being recorded on my
shots, requiring more and more post processing detail work.
At what point do you say it is time to suck it up and get a new camera?
I should have started saving
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Ed Keeney ewkph...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being recorded on my
shots, requiring more and more post processing detail work.
At what point do you say
On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:52, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Ed Keeney ewkph...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being recorded on my
shots, requiring more and more post
Ah! I didn't know this about Lightroom. Good to know. Thanks, Ed, for
asking the question. Cheers, Christine
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From: Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Hot Pixels
and more hot pixels being recorded on my
shots, requiring more and more post processing detail work.
At what point do you say it is time to suck it up and get a new camera?
I should have started saving a long time ago for this.
Thanks!
Ed
http://picasaweb.google.com/ewkphoto
http
. There is no hope in trying to save
this one. A K5 would work much better.
(You're welcome.)
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Ed Keeney ewkph...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being
On 2011-06-21 15:24, Paul Stenquist wrote:
As a footnote to all this, 14,000 images isn't excessive. You should be able to
go well beyond that. Most of my Pentax DSLRs went well beyond 20,000, and all
were still in excellent condition.
For sure. My K10 has about 22,000 on it right now, and
On Jun 21, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
As a footnote to all this, 14,000 images isn't excessive. You should be able
to go well beyond that. Most of my Pentax DSLRs went well beyond 20,000, and
all were still in excellent condition.
My K100Dsuper has something on the order of
would work much better.
(You're welcome.)
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Ed Keeney ewkph...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being recorded on my
shots, requiring more and more post
If you were using your K100D actively throughout all these 4 1/2 years,
then it might be a good idea to replace it anyway...
On 6/21/2011 17:07, Ed Keeney wrote:
I have a K100D that is now 4 1/2 years old with about 14000 images
taken. I've noticed more and more hot pixels being recorded
That's true, but you can overdo it, and Pentax did with the K10D when
the price nosedived, it earned them K10D sales at the cost of
completely destroying K100D Super sales. The K10D was already priced
at a nice discount over the less-featured D80 (about $100) at launch,
and maintaining and/or
Didn't you know, Pentax makes marketing decisions using a dartboard?
Adam Maas wrote:
That's true, but you can overdo it, and Pentax did with the K10D when
the price nosedived, it earned them K10D sales at the cost of
completely destroying K100D Super sales. The K10D was already priced
at a
Riceguy is the anti Kennyboy, (one hates Pentax beyond all reason, the
other loves Nikon more than his wife), with the same witless result. I
keep wondering if they would annihilate each other in a coruscating
blaze of released bile if placed in close contact...
Derby Chang wrote:
Jaume
Hello Adam,
When you are Nikon or Canon you can price reasonably because most
users will buy your products over weaker brands if the price is
similar. When you are the weaker brand, there has to be something
more than a comparably featured body to entice. You either need a
demonstrably better
Hi!
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Doug Franklin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think a big part of it is a change in the mindset of the
photographically aware, if you'll allow me a neologism.
Doug, I think that the age of film and the post-film era are separated
by rather large and definitely
Hi Boris !
Jaume, I most respectfully disagree with you.
Sure...but I don't think that we disagree that much.
Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
People already happy with their equipment? Sounds good but I don't
fully agree...I would say resigned instead of happy.
I am happy. I am still wishing for more,
with Pentax !!
Regards,
Jaume
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Enviado: jueves, 29 de mayo, 2008 6:54:51
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
From: Jaume Lahuerta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
People already
Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News such as this shows up much earlier there than it does here.
Today I was just thinking that this list has somehow shifted
But the Pentax dropped significantly much earlier in its life. Look at
the D80, which was launched concurrently with the K10D and has seen
significant price drops, but still sells for about $200 more than the
K10D did last fall.
I understand price drops, they make sense. But Pentax overdid it
Oh, sure, Derby,
People who goes really in deep on equipment technology rarely is able to
maintain the same level when it comes to actual pictures.
Actually, what I think is that there are 2 different 'hobbies':
- Photography: taking, showing, looking at pictures, talk and comment them.
- Photo
Note the buffer issue can be hit with a few closely spaced shots, not
just in continuous. This is due to it only holding 4 shots (and the
fairly slow write speeds by todays standards, an issue with all
SD-based cameras, the new UDMA CF cards are much faster).
Given those costs (God, Aussie prices
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
Pentax is in deep doo doo now.
There's no real evidence to support that. Time will tell, but it's certainly
not a given now.
They're in better shape than they were
- Original Message -
From: Derby Chang
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
As much as I like to fondle gear myself, I find those to bleat on about
equipment shortcomings tend to be those who have the least to say
photographically.
There is a tendency
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
But the Pentax dropped significantly much earlier in its life. Look at
the D80, which was launched concurrently with the K10D and has seen
significant price drops, but still sells for about
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us the Scott
and Dave show
instead.
(for when you get back from GFM): MARK!!!
cheers,
frank
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:11 AM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
But the Pentax dropped significantly much earlier in its life. Look at
the D80, which was launched concurrently
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: Jaume Lahuerta Subject: List
focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
No more bloody fights
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us
the Scott and Dave show instead.
Oh, man. You guys got the short
-- Original message --
From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:11 AM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
But the Pentax dropped
Hi!
Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
Well, my sentence wasn't too fortunate now that I read it again.
After all, probably the easier way to be happy is to have little
needs, so people has learned to just use their tools and don't be
tortured by further features (that are not really key for what they
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
Pentax Forum is even worse, and the Pentax forum on photo.net is clueless.
I've had a guy respnd to one
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Jaume Lahuerta
Subject: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
No more bloody fights
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us the Scott
and Dave
Jaume: Sorry for the misread on your post--I drink sometimes, you know ;-).
Seriously though, please accept my apologies. Cheers, Christine
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I drink sometimes, you know ;-).
Well, you'll fit right in around here.
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From: Scott Loveless
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us
the Scott and Dave show instead.
Oh, man. You guys got the short end of the stick on that deal.
We know
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us
the Scott and Dave show instead.
Oh, man. You guys got the short end of the stick on that deal.
Scott,
I think you're mixing your short straws with your shit-ended sticks.
Health Safety will be after you.
Bob
Equipment news is tomorrow's recycling. Photographic insight
is timeless
Can someone point that out to Mark! please?
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:47:00 -0400, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Given those costs (God, Aussie prices are bad),
Tell me about it
With the Aussie dollar now approaching parity with the US dollar, a
straight conversion would make the K20D with kit lens about $A1380.
Even
2008/5/29 William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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From: Derby Chang
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
As much as I like to fondle gear myself, I find those to bleat on about
equipment shortcomings tend to be those who have the least to say
Whoever's quoting $2000 for the K20D kit is a crook. I paid
considerably less for my K20D body at release.
In any case, I'd say sink most of your camera budget into new glass.
Bodies come go.
Cheers,
Dave
2008/5/30 Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:47:00 -0400, Adam
2008/5/30 David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Jaume Lahuerta
Subject: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
No more bloody fights
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Tainter
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
Apparently a firmware problem.
We'll see.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=28085894
-
I hope it is indeed firmware. (Pentax corporate HQ is not always honest,
and Pentax reps
- Original Message -
From: David Savage
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
Bodies come go.
You will find as you get older that this concept takes on a whole new meaning...
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From: Joseph Tainter
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
Apparently a firmware problem.
We'll see.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=28085894
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I hope it is indeed firmware. (Pentax corporate HQ is not always honest,
and Pentax reps
Hi Dave
On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:39:12 +0800, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Whoever's quoting $2000 for the K20D kit is a crook. I paid
considerably less for my K20D body at release.
I'm quoting the recommended retail price (as per review in the latest
issue of 'Australian Camera). I'm
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
Apparently a firmware problem.
We'll see.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=28085894
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Apparently a firmware problem.
We'll see.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=28085894
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I hope it is indeed firmware. (Pentax corporate HQ is not always honest,
and Pentax reps are not always knowledgeable.)
I shot some RAW photos the other day with
I agree. I go to dpreview myself from time to time. I realize it has some
value. But so many things get blown out of proportion that the annoyance factor
is huge.
The initial posts about the hot pixel/mirror lockup link seem to suggest that
the hot pixel/mirror lockup problem only happens when
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News such as this shows up much earlier there than it does here.
Today I was just thinking that this list has somehow shifted its focus since
the digital era
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News such as this shows up much earlier there than it does here.
Today I was just thinking
day
- Mensaje original
De: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Enviado: miércoles, 28 de mayo, 2008 20:12:13
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link
: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News such as this shows up much earlier there than
mayo, 2008 20:12:13
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News such as this shows
]
Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Enviado: miércoles, 28 de mayo, 2008 20:12:13
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally
- Original Message -
From: Jaume Lahuerta
Subject: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
No more bloody fights
They got my meds stabilized and someone kidnapped Norm and gave us the Scott
and Dave show
instead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
Pentax Forum is even worse, and the Pentax forum on photo.net is clueless.
I've had a guy respnd to one of my postings telling me that monitor calibration
is unimportant
with BW
in their yearly eloquent day
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Enviado: miércoles, 28 de mayo, 2008 20:12:13
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta
OK, well perhaps we could talk about technical things for a minute...
I'm interested in your statement cheap ones aren't as bad in
comparison as the K200D is to the K20D.
What do you think is wrong with the K200D given that it's about
$600-$700 (Au) cheaper than the 20D?
I'm considering my
Build quality and viewfinder.
That's a lot.
Paul
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From: Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, well perhaps we could talk about technical things for a minute...
I'm interested in your statement cheap ones aren't as bad in
comparison as
The utterly crippled buffer is the most telling fault, there's no
justifiable reason why a modern camera should have a buffer limited to
4 RAWs or 4 JPEG's, especially not at the K200D's rather significant
price (it's easily the most expensive base model on the market, and
not the most capable).
I agree in regard to the K200D, but I wouldn't call the K10D a mistake. It
represented great value for the money, and that helped put Pentax on the
consideration list for many buyers.
Paul
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From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The utterly
: miércoles, 28 de mayo, 2008 20:12:13
Asunto: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:46:24AM -0700, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
BTW, Paul, this link is an example of why it is worth looking
occasionally at dpreview, despite the admitted annoyances of that site.
News
- Original Message -
From: George Sinos
Subject: Re: List focus shift (WAS: Re: K20D Hot Pixels)
Many years ago, when I first joined the list, it was the Pentax
Discussion Mailing List that sometimes strayed into a discussion of
photography. I'm much happier that it now seems like
That it did, but I can't help but think Pentax would have done better
with it if it had remained near its initial pricepoint rather than
descending into K100D territory. By the end of its run it was only
about $50 off a K100D kit in price, which is a bit non-sensical.
-Adam
On Wed, May 28, 2008
I think that's the industry standard for end of life. the Nikon D200 dropped a
level at the end of its tenure as well.
Paul
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From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That it did, but I can't help but think Pentax would have done better
with it if
-- Original message --
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I remember those days.
Pentax is in deep doo doo now.
There's no real evidence to support that. Time will tell, but it's certainly
not a given now. They're in better shape than they were in the
OK, Thanks.
I'll have to take another look at the specs although the buffer isn't a
major limitation to me.
I expect to be buying towards the end of the life cycle of the current
models so (hopefully) the price factor might not be so significant by
then. At the moment the Australian price for a
Jaume, I most respectfully disagree with you.
Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
People already happy with their equipment? Sounds good but I don't
fully agree...I would say resigned instead of happy.
I am happy. I am still wishing for more, but I am pretty happy. I cannot
talk for others though.
The
From: Jaume Lahuerta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
People already happy with their equipment? Sounds good but I don't fully
agree...I would say resigned instead of happy.
Jaume: No doubt you know it's a little dangerous to speak for other people.
For the record, I'm extremely happy (not resigned) with my
Boris Liberman wrote:
Jaume, I most respectfully disagree with you.
I think a big part of it is a change in the mindset of the
photographically aware, if you'll allow me a neologism.
In the age of film, the primary differences in captured quality
occurred due to the film and glass chosen,
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
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
David J Brooks wrote:
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 should have been looking for dead or stuck ball-players.
*ducks* ;-)
-bmw
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IIRC, Pentax has been accused of the same. It has been maintained
somewhere that Pentax actually writes the chosen WB into the raw file
data in addition to giving info on the temperature/tint values
applied. However I cannot recall the source of this information, so
take it as hearsay unless
From: Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008/05/12 Mon PM 07:21:36 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
Zombie pixels
So they are only brain dead? Do they attack live pixels?
On 5/11/08, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From
Funny,
Here's what bugs me about this entire discussion. It's been suspected
that Nikon, Canon, Sony and Olympus all so some kind of pre-processing
to their RAW files. So in other words RAW for them isn't really raw.
It's just possible that all CMOS chips exhibit this kind of behavior, in
Personally, I put it to the particle vs wave nature of light.
Sometimes an extra photon or two falls into a sensor's bucket... sometimes none.
It's all just the quantum mechanics effects.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:50 AM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny,
Here's
Zombie pixels
On 5/11/08, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem that DPReview is having is that they have recieved a couple of
cameras which have
mobile dead pixels.
Interesting. So they are, in fact, not dead. There is some
- Original Message -
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem that DPReview is having is that they have
recieved a couple of cameras which have
mobile dead pixels.
Interesting. So they are, in fact
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
William Robb wrote:
mobile dead pixels.
sounds like horror movie
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to get the sensor hot. It makes me wonder if
they are testing with noise reduction on or off. Probably both, they
do seem to be thorough.
I agree with Bills comment on problem with mobile hot pixels, but I
always thought that was common in long exposures. If not, why would
you need to do a dark
- Original Message -
From: George Sinos
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
I agree with Bills comment on problem with mobile hot pixels, but I
always thought that was common in long exposures. If not, why would
you need to do a dark exposure subtraction after every long exposure
)
See you later, gs
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: George Sinos
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
I agree with Bills comment on problem with mobile hot pixels, but I
always thought that was common in long exposures
- Original Message -
From: George Sinos
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
I think we're in agreement.
In the past I've mainly heard of Dead and Stuck pixels. Dead referred
to black and Stuck referred to always bright. The pixel mapping will
work just fine for the dead and the stuck
Hot pixels, cold pixels, I dunno. My K20 takes great pictures, and I'm too busy
shooting to test.
Paul
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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
I'm the one who will shamelessly admit to being anxious to read dp's eventual
D20 review and with pecial interest re their hot pixel comments.
Jack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
I'm the one who will shamelessly admit to being anxious to read dp's
eventual D20 review and with pecial interest re their hot pixel comments.
Jack
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Oh, I suspect that this virtually guarantees that Phil Askey will give
the K20D a qualified rating, as he did with the K10D over another
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem that DPReview is having is that they have recieved a couple of
cameras which have
mobile dead pixels.
Interesting. So they are, in fact, not dead. There is some other reason for
the misbehaviour. I do wonder what it could be.
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem that DPReview is having is that they have
recieved a couple of cameras which have
mobile dead pixels.
Interesting. So they are, in fact, not dead. There is some
other reason for the misbehaviour. I do wonder what it could be.
- Original Message -
From: mike wilson
Subject: Re: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
The problem that DPReview is having is that they have recieved a couple of
cameras which have
mobile dead pixels.
Interesting. So they are, in fact, not dead. There is some other reason
Drunk?
Jack
--- On Sun, 5/11/08, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 2:30 PM
- Original Message -
From: mike wilson
Subject: Re: Re
On Fri, 09 May 2008 18:49:19 -0400, Mark Roberts wrote
Dysthymic Prognosticators?
I'll have to look that on up it's 7.30am in UK.
John
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- Original Message -
From: Jack Davis
Subject: K20D Hot Pixels
Just noticed this on dpreview. Speaks to a delay in testing the K20D due to a
hot pixel
problem. A problem I don't recall reading about on PDML.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forums=1036message=27852469
On May 10, 2008, at 3:05 PM, William Robb wrote:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?
forums=1036message=27852469
Zero dead, Zero hot using ACR to convert the RAW files, then saved
as tiffs and tested using the
dead/hot pixel test that Starzen technologies wrote.
Maybe I'm
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
On May 10, 2008, at 3:05 PM, William Robb wrote:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?
forums=1036message=27852469
Zero dead, Zero hot using ACR to convert the RAW files, then saved
as tiffs
2008/5/11 William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels
On May 10, 2008, at 3:05 PM, William Robb wrote:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?
forums=1036message=27852469
Zero dead, Zero hot using ACR to convert
Guess it's just become a way of life over there. They must be a bunch of very
hot pixies.
Jack
Jack
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