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Seeing as some of you lovely people are into cameras and photography, does anyone know what is causing this?
Four lit up pixels surrounded by a diamond of plack pixels.

Four lit up pixels surrounded by a diamond of plack pixels.

Taken on a 1 piece Olympus camera, low light, long exposure.

There are about 6 of these in total, and they are in the exact same place in every photo, although they only show up in these conditions. Any more light or a shorter exposure and they're gone.

(Mr._Pickles, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:51, archived)

Dead/stuck/faulty pixel, innit.

www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1561266.php

edit: Or a hot pixel, thanks your lordship :)

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:52, archived)

Ooh, very useful,

thanks :-)

(Mr._Pickles, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:56, archived)

it's some kind of dead pixel

but as to why it crops up under certain conditions, I have no idea?

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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:52, archived)

"hot" pixels

a problem with CCDs. On some cameras you can hide them

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lord bofingham, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:53, archived)

I wish I could with mine :(

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:53, archived)

I had some on

an old Nikon, and there was a method, or software, or something on their site that configured the camera to hide them.

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lord bofingham, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:56, archived)

I have a Canon S10 - will take a look-see if there is any 3rd party stuff about.

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:57, archived)

At the risk of appearing ignorant...

It's 1 pixel - surely not the hardest cloning job in the world?

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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:00, archived)

Correct!! :)

x several 1,000 ? If you've got nowt else to do? :D

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:01, archived)

Point taken.

In which case I suggest you make it a feature, and try incorporating a single cyan dot into all your pictures. It might add an extra dimension to your art.

(To Original TJer whose name I can't recall as I type this, rather than to Dixie)

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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:03, archived)

I already made a few thousand with my print of "Cyan dot on a Black Background" so I can't go down that path again.

Wait - now if I adjust hue.... :D

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:06, archived)

I'll pass that advice on as well.

(Mr._Pickles, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:08, archived)

Surely you can set up a Photoshop Action to do that?

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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:05, archived)

Possibly someone with the skillzors could...

I didn't even know there was such a monster.. I will check as soon as i get home! Thanks for the tip, sugartits :)

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Richard Shitheels, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:07, archived)

It's my Dad's camera.

He's getting in to the more interesting bits of Photoshop Elements, but he can't easily clone things smoothly yet.

And it's a little more than one pixel. Four lit up and a diamond of black around it. Not that difficult, but my Dad was wondering if it could be fixed rather than cloning every photo.

(Mr._Pickles, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:03, archived)

www.b3ta.com/board/9873878

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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:04, archived)

ALIENS!

Sorry - you were dangerously close to getting sensible replies to a question, there.

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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 15:54, archived)

Thank you for restoring balance to the board.

(Mr._Pickles, Fri 15 Jan 2010, 16:05, archived)

full screen the applet in the link and leave it over night

www.jscreenfix.com/applet.php?width=1024&height=768
should come with a spaz warning