Andrew Deme wrote:rick.lang wrote:Matzoh, if that is the only problem and recordings otherwise look great, as you say, it's not too serious. Disappointing, but all things in perspective if you can shoot great images with it!
Rick Lang
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I will never understand these sorts of posts.
Yep, just like buying a new car with scratched paint, drives beautifully.
Well Rick was referring to the two dead/stuck pixels on the display. O course it kinda sucks, but fact is that almost all manufacturers have (for the common "consumer grade" at least) a certain percentage of pixels on LCD/TFTs that can be dead/stuck without warranting an RMA/return. Happens with computer screens as well, dunno about the states but over here some resellers offer (for an added premium charge) a service of testing the display firsthand and guaranteeing you a flawless screen. But as I mentioned that doesn't come for free.
Nobody is saying to not return the camera if it would have any kind of recording defects or too severe display problems.
My BMCC has zero dead/stuck pixels, on the display and the recording side of things. My BMPCC is absolutely fine recording wise but has one hot pixel in the middle of the display, as I'm using an external screen/EVF most of the time anyway and it doesn't really limit the use of the camera (for me) in any way I chose to be fine with it.
My BMPC4K is fine display wise, but has 4 or 5 hot pixels when recording. Thats 5 out of 8,294,400 pixels or 0.00006% ... no biggie for me, of course I'm still hoping for a better/working internal remapping in-firmware that at least maps it out on the fly...
In comparison.. I just got a SmallHD DP4 a few months ago and it has one hot pixel in the middle of the screen as well, while SmallHDs customer service is very quick and helpful all of the time, they won't RMA a screen with only one hot pixel either.