On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:11:55 GMT, ringoffire@my-deja.com wrote:

>2 TRV 900's I bought have had a problem when shooting in low light at
>slow shutter speed. The first one, which I exchanged, had 4 or 5
>pixels which 'went white' at 1/4 sec shutter speed in low light. When
>the picture was black, these pixels were white, and very distracting.
>One of the offending pixels was in the center of the frame so that
>digital zooming in this mode of shooting was useless.
>
>The recently arrived replacement has only one offending pixel in the
>afore mentioned circumstances, and it (being off-center) gets 'zoomed
>out' of the frame with digital zoom. But it is still there, at shutter
>speeds from about 1/4 to 1/15 sec when shooting in very low light.
>
>Should I expect my TRV 900 ($1869.95) to be perfect in this
>situation?
>Or, is one bad pixel good enough? I might mention that the LCD and
>viewfinder are perfect, no bad pixels, nor is there anything else wrong
>with the camera that I can find; but, the slow shutter speeds provide
>a cool time posterization effect which I expect to use often.

Only one bad pixel, seen only at 1/15th-second and slower
is pretty good for this grade of camcorder. I have two
VX-1000s, and both show a couple of white pixels as they
go toward 1/4 second at max. gain (these tend to show only
when the background is black, though); I also have a
couple of VX-2000s - one has one showing at 1/15th and
slower, the other doesn't...