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Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/13/06 03:21
"Toby" wrote ...
> As an interesting aside, I recently bought a digital slr, and after
> some repair work was horrified to find three bright white dead pixels.
> To make a long story short, I brought the camera back, and within the
> hour they had remapped the pixels to the value of their neighbors. It
> was pointed out to me that when a chip is manufactured it probably has
> hundreds, if not thousands of such dead pixels, which are remapped at
> the factory and no one is the wiser.
Same with video cameras. Some professional cameras
can be re-mapped by a factory-equipped service provider,
but it is usually hard-wired in consumer camcorders.
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