Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/10/77 11:42

<Jim> wrote ...
> Today I discovered to my horror that there's suddenly a dead spot on
> the CCD sensor of my JVC GY-DV300. In a dark scene it's a very
> noticeable white dot in the upper right hand quadrant of the screen.
> In a lighted scene, it's a small dark spot in the same place.
> Increased gain lights it up.
>
> I've never seen a problem like this mentioned in these groups, but I
> wonder if this is just an expensive trip to a JVC repair center or if
> there are any alternatives or tricks around for dealing with this. The
> cameras I use all the time and beat up never have problems. It's only
> the most expensive one that has to fail like this :^(

Even if it is still under warranty, many (most?) camcorder
manufacturers have some minimum number of dead pixels
before they will consider repairing/exchanging it. There
is software which can hide individual pixels (by substituting
the adjacent color, etc.) after you have captured the video
into a computer file.

On higher-end cameras, running the manual white balance
and black balance cycles frequently minimizes the visibility.

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