ARGGHHHH!!! Stuck pixel on my D800

eNo wrote:

Okay, I see others have given you portions of the answer, so here it goes, to sum up:

• You mention lower ISOs when you didn't see them. This tells me your pixel is a ​hot​ pixel (not stuck or dead), and these will show up at a certain ISO, but not lower ISOs
• Lightroom automatically detects and removes hot, stuck or dead pixels. That may be another reason you're not doing it.
• The D800 allegedly remaps bad pixels when you issue the sensor clean command (apparently twice in a row). If your camera is set to clean the sensor on ON/OFF, then turning the camera ON/OFF a couple of times may have done the trick.

Some definitions:

1. Dead pixel: a pixel that is always stuck on pure black, because it is actually not recording light. IOW, it's always completely off/disabled.
   
2. Stuck pixel: a pixel that is always stuck at a non-black (non-zero) color value, regardless of the level of light it should have recorded.
3. Hot pixel: a pixel that behaves like a stuck pixel under certain conditions, such as, the sensor gets hot, you are taking a long exposure, or the ISO (sensor analog gain) goes above a certain level.
   

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