Software remapping?

[muerte]

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, so hi all :)...

Few days ago i bought a new G3 and quickly discovered that i had really annoying problem with hot pixels. And it was especially bad since there were clusters or groups of them. 2 groups, one green, one blue...

The green one had approximately 15 pixels, and the blue one at least 30... It looked like it was interpolated or antialiased, but it was in a TIFF (RAW), so no interpolation was done.

I went back to the store with an laptop and we tested another cam which is clear as a baby's butt :)

Anyways, i wanted to ask, why doesn't Canon implement remapping feature in G3/5 firmware, like Olympus does for example? It's such a simple feature, they simply "turn off" the pixel in question, and interpolate it from the nearest one. Works like a charm in c5050...

Marko

[jazcan]

You could write to them about it. I did but they said there are no plans in the near future for such a firmware update. It would certainly make life easier for the end-user and cut down the amount of cams brought in to their repair centers since that is the only way to have the pixels mapped out at the present time!

[nomel]

I know there is software you can use to do this for use after you take the picture and put it on the computer. It does it using a black frame subtract?

The camera has this built in, but only for shutter speeds longer than 1 second (if I know the shutter speed will be about 1 second, i jsut put it on TV and set it a little over so the feature is used).

I would take it back, cause that sounds very bad. I have some hot pixels, but only about 3, and the third is barely visible.

[muerte]

Yeah, like i said, i went back to the store with my laptop and we tested another cam which was okay, so we exchanged the cams. They were very understanding so i guess i was very lucky when i chose them to buy the cam. :)

But... although i know that hot pixels will eventually develop even on this one, i won't do any more tests. If i don't see it on normal photos, i won't search it. I think it's okay to test your cam when you purchase it, but to constantly look for that single pixel... I think the cam then looses it's purpose.