Conditions: 2 seconds shutter delay
High ISO noise reduction OFF
Slow shutter speed NR AUTO
Shutter speed faster than 1/30
ISO - set some low ISO, up to ISO400.
Scene with some dar and some bright parts.
How many times do you need to use your K20D in a manner that requires similar 'conditions' (Edvinas, above)? My answer: NEVER!
Wrong answer. Many people use a tripod for landscape pictures. While taking pictures from a tripod most people use 2 seconds delay.
Many people have their cameras with High ISO NR off (it's default K20D setting).
So, those conditions are not some exceptional conditions.
BTW, codiac requested pictures with hot pixels, so he could provide Pentax with those pictures. People find out exact conditions how to get hot pixels. No need to be hostile to those who report what conditions produce hot pixels.
Wrong answer. Many people use a tripod for landscape pictures. While taking pictures from a tripod most people use 2 seconds delay.
Many people have their cameras with High ISO NR off (it's default K20D setting).
So, those conditions are not some exceptional conditions.
BTW, codiac requested pictures with hot pixels, so he could provide Pentax with those pictures. People find out exact conditions how to get hot pixels. No need to be hostile to those who report what conditions produce hot pixels.
but how many are going to do it with live view? besides with your finishing comment 'enjoy hundreds of hot pixels' just oozes a negative sentiment and goes a little further than just 'reporting'. so its no surprise you get a comment like that above. though I don't think he was being 'hostile'.
How many times do you need to use your K20D in a manner that requires similar 'conditions' (Edvinas, above)? My answer: NEVER!
Hey... I'm heading out into the real world to have some fun with my K20D. If a 'hot pixel shows its pesky little self, I'll deal with it!
sheeeeesh...
Well, it's a good thing that people found out how to reproduce the issue (so that a firmware fix can be proposed) and that the circumstances are fairly rarely encountered so that it doesn't become a huge problem for users.
For sure, these conditions are easily encountered when you test a camera so it would be good for Pentax to work on a fix pretty fast if they don't want to get the reputation of selling a "hot pixel machine"....
It seems that every K20D have this 2s-self timer bug. The problem is easy to reproduce. Not really related to liveview, iso and high iso noise reduction. I got about 2000 dead pixels (using a dead pixel test tool), pixel mapping doesn't help.
I think they are defective pixels instead of hot pixels because they are almost fixed. So I think it's just a ugly software bug and it should be easy to fix.
Conditions: 2 seconds shutter delay
High ISO noise reduction OFF
Slow shutter speed NR AUTO
Shutter speed faster than 1/30
ISO - set some low ISO, up to ISO400.
Scene with some dar and some bright parts.
Inspect the EXIF yourself to learn about hot pixels are not appearing JUST for the above specific condition.
There are also quite some other hot pixel samples in the following page, just go to see by yourself and I cannot post the direct pic links one by one:-
Inspect the EXIF yourself to learn about hot pixels are not appearing JUST for the above specific condition.
There are also quite some other hot pixel samples in the following page, just go to see by yourself and I cannot post the direct pic links one by one:-
(See the "studio" shots and compare them with others.)
Checked one studio shot at 400 12 hot pixels... Big whoop. Go away your too fussy..
The main concern for most is if there are dozens and dozens, which appear w/ the 2 sec delay..
"According to Pentax JAPAN, the phenomen [the intermittent hot pixels, edt.] is due to an erraneous basic setting of the sensor as carried out during manufacturing. Therefore, the sample is faulty and should not have escaped into circulation. Another unit which was made available at short notice, did not show the phenomenon. It only had a few ordinary hot pixels which could be mapped out using the corresponding built-in camera function. The duration of the use of LiveView during our after tests had no significant impact on number or intensity of hot pixels. Samsung GX20 and Pentax K20D now show the same level of hot pixels which is in a range we are used to. [...] The visual judgement on category "other artifacts" has now been improved by two points to be "good" now."
So, we have two phenomena:
(1) Random hot pixels in some tested units which are manufacturing anomalies not normally seen in customer shipments
(2) 2s mirror lockup hot pixels due to missing dark frame subtraction.
Phenomen (1) and (2) are different. We should not get confused by mixing them up now...
If people chuck a fit this badly over 0.001% of their pixels being bad, I'd hate to see what they do when they get a speck of dust on their lens or sensor.
I've had my K20D for a little over a week now and thought I'd chime in with another sample. I'm using Dead Pixel Test to provide the counts. Took three shots from both my K10D and K20D at ISO 400, 1/30 sec, 2 sec mirror, dial @ M, with lens cap on. K20D - Slow speed NR = Auto, High-ISO = Off. K10D - Noise reduction = Off.
3 images from K10D ==> count of 6 hot pixels on each
3 images from K20D ==> count of 190, 196, 195 hot pixels respectively
These are using the default value of 60 for the luminance threshold. Is this a reasonable value for this test?
Just posting as an additional point of information. Didn't sync all settings (just those noted above) across cameras so if there are other settings that affect the numbers, please let me know as I'm curious.
One additional set - same parameters as above except drive mode to single instead of 2 sec mirror
3 images from K10D ==> count of 6 hot pixels on each
3 images from K20D ==> count of 2, 2, 1 hot pixels respectively
I bought my Pentax K20D recently (last weekend). I was debating myself whether to go with K20D or K200D and finally decided to go with K20D. I haven't actually tried to replicate the hot pixel issue, but little bit annoyed by hearing about that. For my style of shooting, I don't think I will be seeing this problem..but hearing the fact that it exists bothers me a little bit
My question is: Did anyone contact Pentax with these sample tests? What was their response?
, pixel mapping doesn't help.
