I picked up my camera today and the image is very clean. The difference between before and after is huge, especially at -18db. The weird thing is that the repair guy could not reproduce my problem. He did remap the pixels just in case.

I am happy that those pixels are gone and I hope I will never see them back.

I am glad you are happy with the results but I am confused as to how they remapped pixels they could not find as bad? Did they just reconfigure the general region that you had the bad pixels based on pre-exising footage?

Marty, I am also puzzled but this what they told me. I included a tape with the pixels recorded so I guess they used that. But like I said, it is completely clean now so I am very happy and hope it will stay like this.

floris,

As promised, new sensor for my A1 costs euro 817,00.

Heftly.

Did you had to pay for it or was it still under warranty?

I bought the camera in NY and Sagemax will cover it. Apparantly
Canon only gives 3 month guarantee on repair work in Europe.