Originally posted by RiceHigh If by particularly hotter you mean still well below a hundreth of a percent of the available pixels. Think about it, even with 1000 hot pixels out of 14000000, that's 0.007%, with 100, 0.0007%. Honestly, here's the best solution RH, I'll list the steps in order:
1) Turn on camera.
2) Depress shutter.
3) Rinse and repeat.
The above steps can be completed using any camera of your choice, so if you don't like one brand, move along and try another. The rest of us will happily use what we have..
In all seriousness though, in reply to the OP, I haven't noticed many hot pixels. Been using 1.01 firmware shooting raw exclusively, and using ufraw to convert & begin postprocessing exporting to the gimp. I haven't had to remove any stuck/hot pixels, even with some night stuff e.g. this at ISO800, 1/4s:
I can see a few, but most of what you'd think are hot pixels are snow flakes refracting the light. Take a look, full version here:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/3145303073_62fb18a622_o.jpg
Maybe I'm just being cavalier or have a better copy than some people. I haven't tried over 2s long exposures.