Just brought a Canon A70 and have just noticed one of the pixels on the lcd is misfiring (red). Can any one tell me some background on this problem. Does it go away or is it likely to get worse? I'm going to try and return the camera as faulty its a shame because I needed it for my little boys birthday on Sunday. Ho hum Thanks for any info.
dead pixels are a real pain i got a green one on my camera and my mothers laptop has a yellow one. the most anoying thing is we cannot retun the laptop as faulty unless ther are 4 or more dead pixels! other than trying to return it, i cannot really help you....
Like CHRISS says, its a dead pixel which means it wont get better. Some manufacturers carry a no dead pixel guarantee, although this usually implies to TFT screens. Therefore its doubtful they'd do anthing regarding the camera. I remember my father's old Dell laptop had a single red dead pixel in the middle of the screen... well annoying!
Great news for me, the website I brought it from mailed me back at 9:09am to say they are sending a replacement and will collect my camera at the same time tomorrow. I read the small print in my manual and it talked about a 0.01% tolerance on pixels misfiring but the camera peeps are being very nice. Cheers
Nice one To be honest, dead pixels is possibly the main reason I don't want an LCD monitor. Even if the number of dead pixels from a company is say, 1 in a billion, that's still 1 dead pixel every 800 or so screens, and I think there's a much higher dead pixel rate than 1 in a billion.
My problem was one pixel out of thousands on a camera lcd - and I found that annoying. I can't imagine the stress a larger lcd display would generate with more gone - me needs therapy thinking about it
Exactly, most LCD monitors that are sold at the moment are 1280x960 or 1024x768, that's 1.3 and 0.8 megapixels respectively.
ive found camera people to be very good about pixels on screens. We had one dead pixel on a sony digital video camera and they replaced it straight away.
