Nikon D7000 Hot Pixels

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Some new owners were reporting hot pixels in their video. Is this common among all the dslrs?
 
all DSLR's will get hot pixels eventually. the problems reported are stuck hot pixels during video, meaning they are ALWAYS red/green/blue/white and always there.
 
At ISO values above 3000, I was seeing stuck/hot pixels in my video footage.

Disappointing? Yes. Par for the course with these types of cameras? Sadly, also yes.
 
lucky man. I have up to 8, the first one (RED pixel) starts to be visible at ISO 800. The remaining seven are all visible by ISO 5000. Time to go back to the store!
 
Should D7000 users be concerned about stuck hot pixels? Or is it too common, amongst all dslr's that they shouldn't worry about few?

Some people get paranoid. Their opinions are made into satire by razormac at DPReview:
"...I'm returning mine because I see noise in 100% crops of ISO 25,600 shots of the blank wall in my closet taken using the light of a single captive lightning bug."

Personally, my D7000 has two stuck hot white pixels, and a couple blue and red spots flare up when shooting low light, or shadows, even at 100iso. This bothers me, but if this is a widespread issue amongst all dslr's, I can learn to live with it.
 
James0b57,

i can see where you are coming from, and frankly, for any narrative shooting, I don't think I'll be shooting any video over ISO 800 anyway, too much noise for me. But the multi-colored pixels that I see on my footage virtually eliminate the ability to shoot any video on AUTO (family events, no lighting, etc) It's like someone hung permanent Christmas lights on my footage, red and green and blue dots all over the place. That's a problem, not user paranoia. I guess I want to know when it became acceptable to 'live with' a defective product? I have the opportunity to bring mine back as many times as it takes, hot pixels be damned!
 
I thought part of the excitement about the D7000 was it's ability to shoot clean footage at higher ISOs, so if you can't use this when it's needed, then maybe you should look at a GH1(3) or GH2 - or 7D/60D?

I'm glad I waited to grab a D7000 - we'll have to see how it unfolds in the coming months!
 
e-steve said:
I thought part of the excitement about the D7000 was it's ability to shoot clean footage at higher ISOs, so if you can't use this when it's needed, then maybe you should look at a GH1(3) or GH2 - or 7D/60D?

I'm glad I waited to grab a D7000 - we'll have to see how it unfolds in the coming months!
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actually, experiencing this problem now reminded me of an issue when we were shooting pickups for my short film ROM, which the DP was using a 7D. I don't know what ISO we were shooting on, but there ended up being a stuck white pixel on 4 shots. I didn't really know what made that happen at the time. Now I do. And now I have to call my buddy with his 7D and tell him to be careful and watch out for it.
 
e-steve said:
I thought part of the excitement about the D7000 was it's ability to shoot clean footage at higher ISOs, so if you can't use this when it's needed, then maybe you should look at a GH1(3) or GH2 - or 7D/60D?

I'm glad I waited to grab a D7000 - we'll have to see how it unfolds in the coming months!
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Haha, that is a very good point. Although, with a little masking, the hot pixel can be hidden, while the overall footage stays looking relatively cleaner than a m4/3 camera. (If the GH2 had come out in October, I probably would have bought it instead. ) I believe the D7000 will still be better than a GH2 in very low light.
 
James0b57 said:
Haha, that is a very good point. Although, with a little masking, the hot pixel can be hidden, while the overall footage stays looking relatively cleaner than a m4/3 camera. (If the GH2 had come out in October, I probably would have bought it instead. ) I believe the D7000 will still be better than a GH2 in very low light.
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Possible - perhaps probably - but if hot pixels are present, surely the advantage has gone? What happens when they appear in an area that can't be masked?

As you probably know, all Panasonic cameras inherited Olympus' 'pixel mapping' feature for the removal of stuck/dead pixels.

This has always been a vastly underrated feature (Olympus, themselves, barely mention it - even though it's incredibly useful, and every digital camera should have it a matter of course)

With the advent of VDSLR's, pixel mapping takes on even greater importance - I really don't know why Canon & Nikon don't offer it.
 
Don't it have a manual sensor clean feature like Canon camera? Try that but I wouldn't accept any dead pixel on my video.
 
I just stress tested my camera and really didn't notice stuck pixels until I was in the 4000 ISO range. I can't be bothered to care, because there was so much noise in the image at that ISO rating that it looked like horrible pre-2000 era video.
 
macgregor said:
I have 1.
Ben, let us know what they tell you in the store, ok?
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will do, the wife is a Best Buy employee and it doesn't look like there's a D7000 in a 100 mile range, I'll have to wait until one comes into the warehouse.

Mirezzi said:
I just stress tested my camera and really didn't notice stuck pixels until I was in the 4000 ISO range. I can't be bothered to care, because there was so much noise in the image at that ISO rating that it looked like horrible pre-2000 era video.
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I wish that was the case on mine, but there's definitely a red pixel at ISO 800, which I could see myself using. Still super-happy about the footage I'm getting at ISO 100-200.
 
ARRRggh. A stuck pixel @ ISO 800. Returning to Best Buy, it's a very visible blue stuck pixel. ISO 800 is WAAAAAY too low to start showing stuck pixels on Day 1. I accept that it's just a fact of current sensor technology that most digital cameras tend to show hot pixels at high ISO's but 800 is absolutely not satisfactory to me- bummer! It's just one pixel but there it is, staring at me in every still photo.

Time to start researching options- possibly an all Panasonic solution with the AF100 and a GH2. I'm really interested in the small form factor mirrorless concept for still cameras as a photographer who tends to walk long distances with gear, and of course they shoot video too, so maybe that's a better investment and it might just be time to swap out the lens collection.

More research is definitely involved for a lot of us before we jump ship but the Pansasonic one-two for video and stills sure is compelling, isn't it? Nikon may have dropped the ball on this one, we'll see, it's just the first few examples of Rev A so it's of course way too soon to say the design has a fatal flaw. But it's clear that everyone needs to inspect their new D7000's closely during the return period.

The pixel mapping feature on Panasonic cameras is now of great interest to me! That's a really good idea for any digital camera.

I would miss Nikon Speedlights more than the lenses, but time marches on. A compact GH2 and an AF100 are sure looking more interesting to me at the moment!
 
Steve Smull said:
ARRRggh. A stuck pixel @ ISO 800. Returning to Best Buy, it's a very visible blue stuck pixel. ISO 800 is WAAAAAY too low to start showing stuck pixels on Day 1. I accept that it's just a fact of current sensor technology that most digital cameras tend to show hot pixels at high ISO's but 800 is absolutely not satisfactory to me- bummer! It's just one pixel but there it is, staring at me in every still photo.

Time to start researching options- possibly an all Panasonic solution with the AF100 and a GH2. I'm really interested in the small form factor mirrorless concept for still cameras as a photographer who tends to walk long distances with gear, and of course they shoot video too, so maybe that's a better investment and it might just be time to swap out the lens collection.

More research is definitely involved for a lot of us before we jump ship but the Pansasonic one-two for video and stills sure is compelling, isn't it? Nikon may have dropped the ball on this one, we'll see, it's just the first few examples of Rev A so it's of course way too soon to say the design has a fatal flaw. But it's clear that everyone needs to inspect their new D7000's closely during the return period.

The pixel mapping feature on Panasonic cameras is now of great interest to me! That's a really good idea for any digital camera.

I would miss Nikon Speedlights more than the lenses, but time marches on. A compact GH2 and an AF100 are sure looking more interesting to me at the moment!
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I would seriously reconsider using a Micro 4/3 camera for primarily still photos - I have owned many Nikon's over the years and now have a D700 and GH1 and the GH1 isn't even in the same universe when it comes to still photography.

Nikon's have way better colour reproduction (especially under artificial light sources), excellent white balance, much better DR, better metering, faster more accurate auto-focus, better fill-flash and are ergonomically superior. They are a complete and mature overall system with far more WA lenses that are pro level, more flash options and other features such as CLS etc etc....the GH1 viewfinder really sucks for still photos but having an articulated LCD IS great I must admit....I love my GH13 for video and timelapse filming but the only thing I can think of where it is better for stills is form factor/weight....other than that the Nikon DSLRs murder both the Micro 4/3 cameras I have had (GH13 + EP-1).....even the lowly D50 I had was a MUCH better still camera than the GH1.

You can always have Nikon map out the dead pixel for you and invest in a GH1/GH2 for video duties then invest in some MF Nikkors for use on both cameras. I would never consider using a GH2 over a D7000 for pro still photography....just my 2 cents.
 
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