lamont
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In a former life I was an physics/astronomy double major and learned how to use liquid nitrogen-cooled CCD detectors in ~2-3m telescopes. So I learned an awful lot about the care and feeding of CCD detectors and a lot of stuff that can go wrong with them including dead pixels, and it looks like my c-5050 has a dead pixel:
Kind of a really bad picture, but near the diver's right knee you can clearly see a streak due to a dead pixel which is now showing up in all my pictures apparently. I haven't dug into the warantee situation, but I'm pretty sure this camera is at least 2 years old so I'm dubious that its still waranteed (and its not made by olympus anymore). Does this mean that the camera is now my backup and I should buy another one, or can I get this fixed? Anyone else have this issue before and know what to do about it?
![Grand-Cenote-2006-12-14-79.jpg](http://www.scriptkiddie.org/uwphoto/Grand-Cenote-2006-12-14/Grand-Cenote-2006-12-14-79.jpg)
Kind of a really bad picture, but near the diver's right knee you can clearly see a streak due to a dead pixel which is now showing up in all my pictures apparently. I haven't dug into the warantee situation, but I'm pretty sure this camera is at least 2 years old so I'm dubious that its still waranteed (and its not made by olympus anymore). Does this mean that the camera is now my backup and I should buy another one, or can I get this fixed? Anyone else have this issue before and know what to do about it?