Help! What is this??

[Greg B]

The line in these images has just started appearing. The line is vertical about one fifth of the way in from one edge. You will also notice on the darker image there are a couple of bright spots at one end of the line.

There hasn't been anything happen to the camera, in fact it hasn't been used that much lately, few shots here and there.

I have given the sensor a blow and a clean. ( )

All to no avail, although there are a few more bunnies there now than before I went the wet clean!

Any ideas?

[LostDingo]

geez, don't know...almost looks like a scratch....maybe supply a snappy photo and also 100% crop of the area

[Nnnnsic]

If that's a scratch, that's the straightest scratch I've ever seen.

Looks more like a row of pixels have died or a sensor glitch.

I've seen monitors do it before.

[Matt. K]

Greg
That's an F1-11 at 12000 feet. You did damned fine to get him. POW material.

Seriously though....it looks bad. Real bad. Real real real bad. Get you checkbook out because its gonna cost you.

Even more seriously though...try a a hard reset...button on bottom of camera, and if it's still there then get in touch with Monsieur Maxwell and tell him 10,000 forum members are interested in the outcome.
Good luck! Also win the egg competition and get a new body.???

[birddog114]

GregB,
Back to Maxwell, where it was from

[stubbsy]

Greg

Christian had a similar problem, but it was a red pixel. His camera had to go to Maxwell for repair.

[birddog114]

Greg

Christian had a similar problem, but it was a red pixel. His camera had to go to Maxwell for repair.

I recalled, CD has a difference problems not a vertical line as Greg got.

[Jeko70]

Hi Greg,
It doesn't look like a scratch and if the problem is more visible at High Iso I think is a Dead Pixel

To check out try this program first
http://www.starzen.com/imaging/deadpixeltest.htm

Good Luck

Fab

[Greg B]

Thank you all for that feedback.

Matt - yep, it looks bad all right. Fungool. I might have to buy a D200

Birdy - back to Maxwells eh? Bugger.

Fab - thanks for that link, I will give it a try when I get back to Melbourne on Friday.

Oh dear oh me.

[christiand]

Hi,

I had a very similar problem, if not the same.
Mine was a vertival red line in the lower left hand quadrant of the picture.
No cleaning, no resetting fixed the problem.
I had this fixed by Maxwell while it was under warranty.

HTH,
Christian

[cyanide]

Greg - did you end up taking the camera in?

I have just noticed a similar issue with my D70... and in a similar spot.... it usually comes out as a single bright green pixel (or perhaps a small group of pixels) but also sometimes comes out with a (slightly more faint) line leading down to the edge of the shot.... I ran the dead pixel test program posted earlier in the thread but it didn't pick anything up.... does anyone know - does this mean it is a "stuck" pixel/s, rather than "dead" one/s?

Looking back through my photos, it has actually been there for months and months - but I have only just noticed it! Of course, now it's the first thing I see in each and every shot...

Since the camera is more than 12 mths old, and as I am no longer in the country where I bought it, I will probably just leave it for the time being... if I send it in to be fixed, it could well take quite a while..... being camera-less (well, dSLR-less) doesn't sound much fun!

This is the offending pixel/s:



... and the above crop is from this photo (in the bottom leftish area.... ):



This is one of the first photos it appeared in... as I said, it's usually just a dot rather than a line... and isn't always visible - seems to depend on the background colour... but still.....

*sigh*... dammit.