[thelist] slightly ot: color anomaly in digital pictures

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Tue Jul 29 15:34:24 CDT 2003


Dave Nelson <mailto:dnelson at netbank.com>
    on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:02 PM said:

> Don't click on it if it looks like a Pi symbol :)

Does this have something to do with the MOVIE Pi? Never saw it.

> Is it a dot or a pixel?

Well... I'll try to do some ascii art.

* = rich/saturated blue/1px
x = slightly less rich/saturated blue/1px

  xx
  xx
xx**xx
xx**xx
  xx
  xx

The grayish one works like this:

* = dark gray/1px
x = lighter gray/1px

  xx
  xx
xx**xx
xx**xx
  xx
  xx

They appear at random.


> Sound like the camera lens may be dirty.

Not likely because it's very very small.



Chris.


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