Hi All, I have a Sony A9, which I have been using for Aurora photography. The last time I went out, I shot at 6400iso, 2s exposures, and nearly all of the photos I got have a ton of “stuck” pixels. See the video, skip halfway in, and look at the rocks in the bottom right.
I have had a play with the the camera with the lens cap on, and at low isos, there are no stuck pixels, it’s only once I go past 640 (the second iso range) that the issue appears. Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? Is it repairable? I’m guessing most of you shoot at iso100, but for aurora it was nice to get the shorter shutter speeds.
For the future, I’ll try the additional dark frames, but the hot pixels are so high SNR that hopefully 1 will do.
I didn’t even know I was getting these hot pixels on the night, last time I went out I didn’t have this issue at all, which is part of my concern, it’s like my camera has gone from 0 obvious hot pixels to thousands overnight.
Thanks for the advice though, much appreciated.