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How to get rid of those Pesky coloured dots

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Posted: Thu Sep 20th, 2018 07:45

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novicius wrote:
My wonderful D3X had so many of those , that it was as if it took pictures with built-in X-mas lighting...the D3S was not that much better.

I had already hunted down a program called " pixel-fixer ",when I stumbled over some advice.

Now , in RAW them pixels get fixed in developing , but not in J-peg , and I shoot both , RAW in 14 bit , j-peg in lower res. intended for media, but those coloured dots..

The " trick " is simply...

1) Put on lenscap , Close viewfinder blind.
2) Camera set to " M "
3) Select HIGHEST ISO ( I set it to H 2.0 )
4) Select Lowest Shutterspeed
5) Fire !!

It seems as if Camera switches off , wait for it...Shutter will Return , LCd `s light up , but wait !!...the Top-Lcd will flash.. " JOB-af " for a little while, then after it stops ...

Keep steps 1 and 2 and 4.

3) Select LOWEST ISO ( I set it to L1.0 )
5) Fire ...

Again it will seem as if Camera switches off , wait for it...Shutter will Return , LCd `s light up , but wait !!...the Top-Lcd will flash.. " JOB-af " for a little while ...

Upon Checking the Monitor, using High Magnification , You will see that Most coloured dots are gone , IF , there still are some , then they will be mute , and even under pixel peeping they `ll be hardly noticeable , as you would have to Enlarge substantially.

Perhaps this was posted before , but I have not seen it .

I apologise on beforehand if I have .." kicked in open doors "...

Hello, Nikon D3X and D3S user here. I tried with my D3X (Firmware version 1.02.) all four steps, but can't seem to reproduce it.

I had my 50mm f1.8G lens on, shutter speed set to 30sec. I use Long Exposure Noise reduction that gives " Job nr " message on top LCD meaning that camera is actually still taking another shot compensating for the noise and is not ready, but " Job af " never came up. Tried with Long exp.NR OFF but nothing...

Is there any specific aperture setting or should this be done without lens altogether?

Appreciate your help

Richard

Posted: Thu Sep 20th, 2018 08:29

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I am wondering if the Job af and Job nr are language variants shown by camera in English or German language!

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Posted: Thu Sep 20th, 2018 18:20

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Hello Richard,

As the Lenscap is on , the aperture selected may not matter ( but try with smallest aperture )

I do not know what your quality criteria are , but I did mention that NOT al those hot pixels are gone , however ,those remaining would not be so obtrusive.

It has been a long time since I did it last, but since You performed all steps ... did you remember to close down the eye-shutter ( viewfinder blind ) ?

However , when You need Top-Results , I suggest to get :

https://www.pixelfixer.org/

It is free - ware , and works better than that little trick, tho` it requires a bit of effort.

Good luck , and let us know how you get on.

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Posted: Thu Sep 20th, 2018 19:31

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novicius wrote:
Hello Richard,

As the Lenscap is on , the aperture selected may not matter ( but try with smallest aperture )

I do not know what your quality criteria are , but I did mention that NOT al those hot pixels are gone , however ,those remaining would not be so obtrusive.

It has been a long time since I did it last, but since You performed all steps ... did you remember to close down the eye-shutter ( viewfinder blind ) ?

However , when You need Top-Results , I suggest to get :

https://www.pixelfixer.org/

It is free - ware , and works better than that little trick, tho` it requires a bit of effort.

Good luck , and let us know how you get on.

You DID Remember to REPEAT those 4 steps ?...

Thare are TWO directories, therefore you have to do it TWICE !!

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Posted: Fri Sep 21st, 2018 10:36

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Richard

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jk wrote:
I am wondering if the Job af and Job nr are language variants shown by camera in English or German language!

I just tried setting the D3X into German but funny enough the " Job nr" is still there :)))

novicius wrote:
Hello Richard,

As the Lenscap is on , the aperture selected may not matter ( but try with smallest aperture )

I do not know what your quality criteria are , but I did mention that NOT al those hot pixels are gone , however ,those remaining would not be so obtrusive.

It has been a long time since I did it last, but since You performed all steps ... did you remember to close down the eye-shutter ( viewfinder blind ) ?

However , when You need Top-Results , I suggest to get :

https://www.pixelfixer.org/

It is free - ware , and works better than that little trick, tho` it requires a bit of effort.

Good luck , and let us know how you get on.

Thank you for the clarification! My D3X is showing some visible hot pixels on ISO above 400 so I'm trying to avoid shooting at higher values, but since I shoot only in 14bit RAW it can be edited out in Capture One Pro...I just sometimes forget :banghead:

I'll try it again and then repost the result

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