Hi All!

Two weeks ago I get my new CANAON EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT 350D.

Accidentally a made a shot with the lens caps on.
The last picture should be black, but, to my surprise, there was a
group of dark red specks in the image.

I did more images with different ISO/exposure settings (RAW format),
but the speck group didn't disappeared.
Its appox. size is 3x3px.

The non-black pixels are arranged in the following way:
 1-2-1
 2-3-2
 1-2-1

where "3" means the brightest pixel, and "1" means the dart-dark red
one.

I was thinking it could be defective sensor, so I contacted the
support. They recommended me to send the camera
to one of theirs support centers "...to be examined...".  .
Now I want them to look on the pictures because don't want to send the
camera unless I'm sure the problem is
with the sensor and they agree on it.

And the reason I'm writing to the conference is, that maybe someone has
had such issues and he/she could
share the experience...  It also will be interesting if someone will
test his/her camera in the way I did.

I have my images uploaded  and they are available  on Inet:

1.  Picture taken with the lens caps on, ISO = 400, exposure time =
1"
http://www.mysharefile.com/v/2957648/img_2911.cr2.html

2.  Picture taken with the lens caps on, ISO = 400, exposure time =
10"
http://www.mysharefile.com/v/8143079/img_2910.cr2.html

3.  Picture taken with the lens caps on, ISO = 1600, exposure time
= 1"
http://www.mysharefile.com/v/7246556/img_2912.cr2.html

I also can post my correspondence with the support if interested.

Thanks,
Sergey Adamenko
Houston, TX