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 --- On Sun, 5/11/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: K20D Hot Pixels > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 12:19 PM > 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. > > > -- > 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- 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.
