Stuck/Dead pixels on D200

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Hi,

looking at some recent photos, I find that there are a couple of stuck/dead pixels when using long exposures, typically longer then 0.5 second. This is on a D200.

Looking at the Nikon knowledge base, I found this article

As described in the article, I don't see the dead pixels in "normal" photos as described in the article, exposures faster then 1/4 sec.

The process to fix these hot pixels is to remap the sensor and that is done by Nikon. My D200 is still under warranty so not a problem from this perspective. What I would like to know:

Has anyone gone through this process with Nikon?

Are they picky about that 1/4 sec exposure limit?

I can always clone the things out but as I do mostly landscape photography with exposures longer then 1/4sec, those pixels tend to come up often.

Thanks for any info,

André

[Schplade]

The way I see it is if you paid your good hard cash for something new that you expected to be perfect and without defects then you should keep pushing to get it perfect no matter what answer you get.