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[OM] Re: Anomalies in E-1/OM Images -- Update

Subject: [OM] Re: Anomalies in E-1/OM Images -- Update
From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:56:48 -0400
At 3:31 AM +0200 5/14/04, Listar wrote:
>From: Cyrtolite@xxxxxxx
>Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:20:35 EDT
>Subject: [OM] Re: Anomalies in E-1/OM Images -- Update
>
>
>Thanks for the reply, Wayne.
>You are seeing oshop's unsharp mask tool for the sharpening (500%,
>3 pixels radius, threshold anywhere from 0 to 10 levels).  The spots are
>visible before sharpening and some of them are too large to be a sharpening
>artifact. Sharpening just makes some of them easier to see.  I see 
>no signs of dead
>pixels. I think they'd be pretty easy to see at 100-200%.
>
>I suppose clusters of dead pixels could be on the right scale but I would
>expect dead pixels to occur randomly (though differential heating or something
>like that could cause them to occur preferentially in a particular part of the
>sensor).

Columns of dead pixels are also common.  It isn't totally random.


>The spots are about perfectly circular and the larger ones are
>composed of concentric rings.  It's hard to imagine how this kind of 
>symmetry could
>result from sharpening around random defects.

You are seeing dust on the glass cover of the sensor.  The rings are 
diffraction (airy) rings from the dust particles.

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