Ricoh GX100 - Hot pixels on sensor! Can you see them?

alex said:

Please see my updated picture for a sample of the Hot Pixels my
GX100 suffered!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8742122@N08/532851304/

Hopefully, I have not alarmed too many people with this sensor
fault, the camera as a whole is excellent and I highly recommend it.

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Your picture link shows no exif Information. Can you give some details under which circumstances (shutter speed etc.) these pixels were visible?

As you have probably read in this thread before I discover some brighter pixel in my dark frames. I am not sure if this is a symptom of a hardware problem or a generic feature ("It is not a bug, it's a feature...")

Would you be so kind to make a comparable dark frame with your new gx100 (1s shutter time, aperture f/9.2, ISO 80, holding the lens cap in front of the lens to block any light) and send me the dark frame or tell me the results the program "HotPixelDetector" produces?

This would give me the opportunity to see if my GX100 behaves in a similar way or if I should send it back to Ricoh.

Thank you very much.

Martin

It seems to me that people are deliberately hunting for faults with their GX100's.

Can the odd hot pixel out of over 10 million actually be seen on prints? People are struggling to spot this defect even when taking unrealistically dark photos, and then pixel-peeping; so much so that special software is required to work out where these hot pixels are.

I understand that when you spend $700 on a camera you expect it to be faultless, but isn't this going it too far??

I cannot do further tests because I returned the faulty camera.

To some extent, I agree it would be hard to see these hot pixels in print form, but my test did show up on print although not as bad as on screen. They were so evident in-camera and in using a photo editor such as Photoshop. I am not a pixel peeper, they were very obvious and my dealer agreed and happily replaced my camera which is 100% better!
Hopefully it is a rare and not too often occurrence in bodies.

alex said:

I cannot do further tests because I returned the faulty camera.

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Just for my peace of mind, could you send me a dark frame of your new camera as a reference of how it should be?

Dan_Dare said:

It seems to me that people are deliberately hunting for faults with their GX100's.

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alex91549 said:

I understand that when you spend $700 on a camera you expect it to be faultless, but isn't this going it too far??

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You are probably right. But it is the same when you get a new car. In the first weeks you are looking for every single scratch. And after some time such scratches are not important anymore.