as some of you may recall from list discussion I purchased a Canon
A80 Powershot in April last year....
Though generally very happy with the camera however from the very
first photo there was evidence of a "dead pixel" in the CCD, in that
if a photo was shot with a certain area being dark it showed a
single pixel red dot... easy enough to fix in photoshop... trouble is
now the "red spot" seems to be getting larger with the shot's I
downloaded last night now seeming to have the "red spot" taking up 9
or more pixels and spreading out further in a checkerboard pattern
(using same size and JPEG compression so not resolution or JPEG
artifacting issue)
Now obviously it's still under warranty but is an obsolete (no longer
made) model.
so has anybody experienced canon warranty service and what are they
likely to do, it seems highly unlikely they would repair/replace the
CCD so would they replace the whole camera with a model of similar
specifications (4 MPixel 3x zoom) or will they replace it with one of
equal purchase value ($600) or????
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