stupid white dot [S70]

[kosmos]

Hey everyone,

I've been feeling really annoyed lately by problems affecting my digital cameras. My G6 developed what looks like a hot pixel (bright and RED). Then my new Canon S70 showed a noticeable white pixel in all low-light images. This is problem because my eyes are drawn to it whenever I am viewing my pictures onscreen. So I decided to exchange it and I think I was nearly devastated to see that the new one not only has the same white pixel, but three other bright blue ones. What the hell is going on, Canon?!

Four defective pixels altogether in one camera - is this normal? Either way, I'm really disappointed and have decided to send it back and keep the first one. I mean, 1 versus 4 bad pixels should be a no-brainer. But I've sat here for quite a while now, staring at the white dot on my images and slowly becoming mentally deficient. What should I do? It's just a dot. Should I return both cameras? Deal with it? Learn to post-process? Learn to appreciate the other millions of functional pixels?

Someone please assure me it's all good. ;_;

[snapshooter]

canon should be capable of remapping your camera CCD. it is common for CCDs to develop hot pixels over time. Even if you get a brand new cam or a different cam, they'd already be developing hotpixels or may already have hotpixels that are remapped. remapping causes neighboring pixels to be sampled and interpolated into the missing or bad pixels.

funny you should mention your brain, cause it is the same thing. There are a big bunch of cells there and over time a few dies off like your ccd hehe..

Mine developed one hot pixel a couple weeks ago, and I haven't touched it since....
I is driving me nuts just looking at it....

[JTF]

If you get these are they noticable on your pics.

[snapshooter]

Do the same thing kosmos did, cover the lens (make sure that there would be absolutely no light getting into the lens) and take a shot. If a bright pixel, or anthing other than a black pixel appears, then you got visible hotpixels.

[kosmos]

I'm just worried that since it's a new brand camera and it's already got a hot pixel, it may be susceptible to developing more in the near future. I have not used my S70 ever since this discovery 'cus it's also driving me nuts. (And to ease the pain, somehow, I bought the new Canon IS S2.. d'oh!)

[snapshooter]

Kosmos, I think they should not have given you a camera with hotpixels, especially bec it's brand new. You can test for hotpixels when you got exchange, if your going to have it exchanged again, maybe you should test it out for hotpixels first.

[Benmok7]

Hi,
I have had my S45 for over 2 years now and had no problems with it.
I say go and get your camera exchanged.
And write to Canon about it.....maybe they ll give you some freebies :)
Cheers,
Ben

[astroltina]

i have had a powershot A95 for 1 week now. everything was fine, great photos.... until yesterday- my brother put some photos on the DVD player so that we could see them on our tv screen, and we noticed a white dot on the screen. a white dot, surrounded by black dots.

ive had a look at all my photos closely since the time of purchasing the camera, and there is the same white dot in the exact same spot. I initially thought i would keep the camera... but today i finally lost my mind staring at the white dot, and decided to take it back to the large department store where i bought it from. they looked at my pics, and agreed to exchange the camera. (i was fortunate that it was picked up so early- if i had waited any longer to return the camera, they would have sent it back to canon for repairs.) im now waiting for them to bring in some more A95's, as they have sold out.

i think the white dot is also known as a hot pixel or stuck pixel? if its there from the time you purchase the camera, and it is noticeable, then i would return the camera. my "dot" was noticeable especially in photos where shutter speed was between 1/30 to 2 secs.

hopefully my new camera (which im expecting to arrive in a week) wont have the same prob.

im glad my brother alerted me to the problem. he had the same thing happen to him with a pentax he bought a couple of yrs ago. there were 3 black dots on his- dead pixels, the store replaced the camera, and the new camera he got had no probs at all.