What do people expect? A night shot is partly composed of black dots. At least to me this looks natural, just hit autolevels and it will look fine. There are also red pixels, just in case somebody wants to make another thread...
Has this black dot issue been created on daylight shots with blown highlights?
Here's a photo I took where the highlights were blown on the water reflections. This is a full size image from the 5D2 at ISO3200, 1/125 f/3.5. Processed through lightroom (CR2 -> DNG). No black dots here.
If it's only at ISO >3200 for blown highlights at high contrast points in night cityscapes, that might not be as big a deal. What can you expect at H1 or H2?
To echo Ward's question above: Can anyone confirm what ISO was used for the photo posted by Caleb above?
Russ Isabella wrote:
Any estimate on the actual number of people who have observed this with THEIR 5DII bodies?
I propose a "Chicken Little" forum where threads like this can go until the "issues" they refer to are confirmed, in some objective and convincing manner, to be real and widespread.
Is it really necessary to call Canon management idiots. So they didn't catch this, big deal. Its a new camera and these types of things will show up and will be corrected in firmware.
jimo1015 wrote:
Is it really necessary to call Canon management idiots. So they didn't catch this, big deal. Its a new camera and these types of things will show up and will be corrected in firmware.
jim
Yes but seriously, this reflects quite poorly on Canon's testing and QC procedures... let's say they fix this- what's next, that they haven't discovered?
orangefirefish wrote:
Yes but seriously, this reflects quite poorly on Canon's testing and QC procedures... let's say they fix this- what's next, that they haven't discovered?
orangefirefish wrote:
Yes but seriously, this reflects quite poorly on Canon's testing and QC procedures... let's say they fix this- what's next, that they haven't discovered?
Sounds like a good time for you to trade me for my 1Ds3
So please let me understand. We are going to begin a panic over the inability of the camera to handle terribly blown unusable photos when shots anywhere close to normal exposure are perfect. I agree with Mattbn and Monochrome, truly laughable. As I recall there was a similar panic on DPR with Nikon when they annouced their new cameras.
Actually I thought it was a horrible, over-exposed, noisy .... and completely flat image. However, the black dots added a bit of contrast and interest .... and somewhat saved the image.
Dan Martin wrote:
That would have been such a great photo if it weren't for the black dots!
, highly secret stuff 
