Re: Praise for Panasonic!!!

First thing he had me do is to hold the BB switch for 8 seconds, and it goes through a "black shading reset". I think it said B-SHADE ACTIVE on the screen. He said that should take care of most dead pixels, but he thinks that there were 2 dead pixels with in the same block on the CCD, so sometimes the compensator gets confused and needs to be "retaught" where the dead ones are.

Well, in my case that didn't work, so then he got me into the secret "service Menus", and I cleared out the matrix that stores the information about all the dead pixels (it even has a built in backup register to save the current settings to in case you really screw something up) , then did the B-SHADE thing and it worked like a charm . In my case, the pixel wasn't really dead per se, but it would go black when the picture was dark, but when the shot was brighter than maybe 50% it would freak and go full bore bright, especially if there was some saturated color there. You could also go into the matrix and select individual colors and kill them one by one if the B-SHADE didn't take care of it.

Probably said more than I'm supposed to, might have some panasonic goons following me around now!!

Matt the P2 Rat

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