like give us a simple utility to map hot pixels ourselves, whenever we want to do it, and without having to pay for the shipping fees, hourly service rate and be without our cameras for weeks... when you know the 5D has a "shy" hot-pixel mapping routine built into the sensor cleaning procedure... it's there, so it's doable in camera and on demand. Alas, it's "shy" in that it only maps automatically what it thinks is objectionnable, and you can't control how much or what is being mapped out.
I had a pack of purple pixels when I bought my 5D. Got them imprinted over 800 pics of a wedding (blue on black tuxedos, yummy). A few days later, I didn't notice it but they've disappeared from all the photos taken after, supposedly, a sensor cleanup procedure. Damn, I should have triggered the sensor clean routine sooner.
Still, I'd like to be able to designate the pixels I want mapped myself . Doing that on the computer could prove to be a nice and simple way to avoid all the returns for bad pixels, and the clogging of Canon's service centers that slows down other customers' important issues.
Olympus does it in camera, why not Canon? Of course 4/6 blue pixels out of 12.700.000 is negligible... but whenever there's a dark background, it's a PITA to clone out of each jpeg image (no I don't shoot RAW so ACR can't treat them for me).
Guillaume
' Most americans aren't racist or stupid. Why should I be burning cars, or dissing americans? Just because I'm french? '
