Originally Posted by
Daniel Browning
Every photographer goes through shock when they find their first dead pixel. Hopefully they learn about the secret dead pixel remapper (hidden in the manual sensor clean feature), as you did. If they were concerned about one pixel, their head would explode if they knew the reality: that every camera has tens of thousands of dead pixels. Most get mapped out at the factory, and new ones get mapped out every time you run the sensor cleaning operation. Of course, even this amount is less than 1% of the image, and the effect on the image is immesurably small.
Canon, like most manufacturers, thinks photographers can't handle the truth, so they cover it up.
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