Can Dead Pixels be Sensor Dust?

[Daniel Browning]

Has anyone else noticed this?

Yes. This has been a long-standing feature of Adobe Camera Raw (and therefore Lightroom). The downside is the same as most Adobe software: they don't give you any control over it. Other programs, like Bibble, let you disable the feature if desired, and even tune all the parameters of the algorithm for your particular camera (or shot). Adobe dumbs things down to the point of the extreme (IMHO).

[conropl]

Yes. This has been a long-standing feature of Adobe Camera Raw (and therefore Lightroom). The downside is the same as most Adobe software: they don't give you any control over it. Other programs, like Bibble, let you disable the feature if desired, and even tune all the parameters of the algorithm for your particular camera (or shot). Adobe dumbs things down to the point of the extreme (IMHO).

I usually want control as well, but I could not see any ill effect. I think it was doing less damage than what I was doing cleaning them up... so I am good. Thanks for confirming.

So that brings up another thought. I bet there are a lot of people out there with dead pixels that do not even know they have them, or they have a worse problem than they thought because Adobe is covering them up.