Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
Fri, 27 Mar 2009
I was examining a picture I took yesterday, of some cherry blossoms. I had taken it with the new camera, and was actually using it as a bit of a manual-focus test, since the camera insisted on focusing near the top of the tree instead of on the blooms that were in the foreground -- a fault I can excuse, since there's a manual option, and I assume the sky through the branches was a way more attractive focus target.
Anyway, as I was looking over this picture, my eye was caught by this weird flaw in the image:
The inset is a 100% crop as highlighted
I looked at a few others, and sure enough, it was there, too. I took a picture with the settings all cranked around so the whole frame was black, and it was there too (so not a flaw in the lens). I guess I have a dead pixel.
The question now is whether that flaw is worth exchanging the camera or not. As you can see, it's invisible when the image is shrunk down to something I'd use on a website, so it's really only something I'd be aware of if using the full-res picture. Still.
UPDATE: I decided to send it back, we'll see if the next one arrives without dead pixels. I also realized that I'd quite like to see if a different unit will have a shutter button that's not quite so mushy. Although that was one of those flaws I was willing to live with, I'd rather not, given this extra problem.
Posted at 12:53 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater