Hot Pixels
I’ve been kind of photo happy recently…and kind of not. Actually, very not.
Happy: Buying a new camera.
Not Happy: Sending it in because of a single hot pixel.
Definitely Not Happy: Waiting many weeks and still not getting it back.
So without my new shining new Pentax camera, I decided to get a used one for the interrim…
Happy: A nice used camera that takes the lenses I bought and was affordable.
Not Happy: Lots of hot pixels even at ISO 200. UGH.
Happy: An easy return policy.
More Happy: Being able to photograph some friends at Anime LA just before the return policy. (Check out shots at sv_chan’s at diavana’s…)
Well, with Anime LA behind us, I am now back to work on school, thesis, game development…
And I am without a camera. Damn hot pixels.
And it’s not the hot pixels that really piss me off. What really pisses me off is that Pentax doesn’t offer a way for the end user to deal with them. Yes, hot pixels on these high end sensors are inevitable, especially over time. But why the hell don’t you build in a little hot pixel mapper into the camera functionality? Olympus does it. Sony does it. Come on, Pentax. Surely it must be easier for you to build in some software to update some eeprom tables of faulty pixels than to have to deal with additional cameras coming into and out of your headquarters for something that can be end user fixable…
It’s almost enough to make me want to go back to Sony with its slightly poorer image quality and worse selection of lenses and way the hell marked up accessory prices…
God I’m a camera dork…
February 8th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Kuyung!!
Someone seems to want to start a blog war with me! This someone has poor english skills and seems to not understand how to construct a logical argument at all! I apologize for the number of exclamation points, but I am literally SHAKING with joy at the thought of tearing her apart.