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Histogram

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Re: Histogram
« Reply #100 on: 22 / January / 2013, 14:50:24 »
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Just check the G11 DNG vs RAW (overexposed) and the same result, ie about 700 in the DNG at 0, but 0 in the RAW at 0!

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Re: Histogram
« Reply #101 on: 22 / January / 2013, 14:59:22 »
The Canon RAW only shows the overexposed data, ie a spike at 4095 and no data anywhere else.
The DNG shows the spike at 4095 and a spike of about 700 at 0.
I'm assuming those are your 700 dead pixels that showed as colored dots in the dng image. Canon must be correcting them before saving them in its own raw format.
Yes, they are dead pixels - when read out from the sensor the value returned is 0.
So a dead pixel is always 0, and a hot pixel is always 0x0FFF (12-bit camera)?

I always thought badpixel.bin was for hot pixels, but it sounds like it mainly removes dead pixels.

So if I went through the entire active area raw buffer looking for 0 pixels or isolated 0x0FFF pixels and set them to the neighboring (same color) pixel value (or average of its neighbors), would that solve the bad/hot pixel problem? I'm not saying it's worth doing, just trying to understand what's going on.

But it might be worth it if you're saving long exposure jpg only files with dark frames off and want to keep hot pixels out of the jpg. If I could get through the raw buffer in under 1 second, it would be an improvement over taking a 1 or more second dark frame after each shot.
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recent CMOS cameras can have tens of thousands of dead pixels
Oh my! Maybe I'll test it by setting my histogram step size to 1 and then:
 print(get_histo_range(0,0,0))
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Re: Histogram
« Reply #102 on: 22 / January / 2013, 15:10:07 »
BTW I had already tried the >4GB procedure you outlined, but tried it again.
The firmware update occurs and I make the card bootable in CHDK and set the tab to locked.
But all I get is a canon message saying 'card locked'.
So you got CHDK running with the firmware update? When you made the card bootable, did a popup window appear that said "finished"?

You have to have the file DISKBOOT.BIN in the root directory on a bootable card. Why don't you try putting my updated build on your card to make sure. You could just copy all the files from your smaller card that you know works over to the large card.

Then turn off the camera, take out the card, set write protect, put in the card, turn on the camera, and throw the camera against the wall if it says "card locked." It worked for me.
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Re: Histogram
« Reply #103 on: 22 / January / 2013, 15:29:59 »
Lapser

I give up, I've tried all options.

When I did the firmware update, it showed finished after I made the card bootable.

I tried your suggestion, ie transfer files.

All result in 'card locked'.

Maybe the S95 can not use greater than 4Gb CHDK, unless you go the multiple partition route: which I cant be bothered with.

Oh well, 4Gb Sandisk cards are cheap!!!

Cheers

Garry

PS I wont even both with the G11!!!


Re: Histogram
« Reply #104 on: 22 / January / 2013, 15:57:12 »
Maybe the S95 can not use greater than 4Gb CHDK, unless you go the multiple partition route: which I cant be bothered with.
The S95 was released in 2010 so it will only boot from a FAT16 formatted partition ( i.e.  4G or smaller ).
« Last Edit: 22 / January / 2013, 15:58:51 by waterwingz »
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Re: Histogram
« Reply #105 on: 22 / January / 2013, 16:06:14 »
Thanks Waterwingz, I was beginning to think that was the issue. As I said, I will stick with 4Gb cards for my S95 and G11.

Cheers

Garry

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Re: Histogram
« Reply #106 on: 22 / January / 2013, 17:23:24 »
I always thought badpixel.bin was for hot pixels, but it sounds like it mainly removes dead pixels.

So if I went through the entire active area raw buffer looking for 0 pixels or isolated 0x0FFF pixels and set them to the neighboring (same color) pixel value (or average of its neighbors), would that solve the bad/hot pixel problem? I'm not saying it's worth doing, just trying to understand what's going on.

CHDK can only fix dead (0 value) pixels.

It 'fixes' the 'bad' pixels by averaging the values from the nearest four pixels of the same color in the Bayer pattern (patch_bad_pixel in raw.c). Note this function will only fix a pixel if its value is 0.

There are two mechanisms for fixing bad pixels built in:

1. If saving DNG and using DNG version 1.1 it loads the list of bad pixels from the badpixel.bin file and fixes them just before saving the DNG file. The badpixel.bin file is created by searching two sample images for dead pixels and saving their co-ordinates to the file - it's a binary format.

2. You can manually create a file called badpixel or badpixel.txt that contains a list of X,Y co-ordinates to fix. These pixels are fixed in the call to patch_bad_pixels in raw_savefile if the 'bad pixel removal' option is enabled.

The reason CHDK uses the badpixel.bin/badpixel.txt files is that scanning the entire RAW buffer on every shot takes too long.

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Re: Histogram
« Reply #107 on: 22 / January / 2013, 21:32:27 »
This is what I got when I sampled 100% of the pixels (step size 1). I did a dark and bright (totally white) shot. It looks like there are 24,288 dead pixels. "Hot pixels" in the dark frame shot are just a lot brighter than the surrounding pixels, but not all at white level. I've attached a small area of the dark frame shot that shows the hot pixels, and the lua script used to create the log. It took 11.5 seconds to create the histogram.
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============================================================
Totally white shot of a bright light
60 seconds ISO 3200 SX260
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Tue Jan 22 17:38:56 2013
press half 32160
press full 32590
shot ready 104500
0 511 24288 **********************These are dead pixels
512 1023 0
1024 1535 0
1536 2047 0
2048 2559 0
2560 3071 0
3072 3583 0
3584 4095 12362592  ***************all other pixels very bright
    0 24288      4095 1628059
    1 0          4094 60
    2 0          4093 427700
    3 0          4092 62
    4 0          4091 582537
    5 0          4090 60
    6 0          4089 692629
    7 0          4088 70
    8 0          4087 781057
    9 0          4086 66
   10 0          4085 829938
   11 0          4084 64
   12 0          4083 842868
   13 0          4082 43
   14 0          4081 886493
   15 0          4080 39
   16 0          4079 933589
   17 0          4078 971279
   18 0          4077 19
   19 0          4076 3785960  **************all pixels are >=4076 except dead pixels
   20 0          4075 0
...
... rest is all 0's
...
  2386880 =npix nipx?= 12386880 4095 =topbin time= 11550

============================================================
Dark Frame shot (with some light leakage)
60 seconds ISO 3200 SX260
============================================================
Tue Jan 22 17:41:12 2013
press half 168840
press full 170280
shot ready 242310
0 511 12379636  ************almost all pixels are in the darkest bins
512 1023 6056   ************probably a little light leakage
1024 1535 696
1536 2047 135
2048 2559 115
2560 3071 67
3072 3583 28
3584 4095 147   ************most of these show up as colored dots, or hot pixels
    0 72286      4095 89
    1 15296      4094 0
    2 13167      4093 0
    3 12936      4092 0
    4 10993      4091 4
    5 10230      4090 0
    6 10469      4089 6
    7 11706      4088 0
    8 10273      4087 0
    9 10036      4086 0
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12386880 =npix nipx?= 12386880 4095 =topbin time= 11580
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Re: Histogram
« Reply #108 on: 22 / January / 2013, 21:51:39 »
CHDK can only fix dead (0 value) pixels.
The reason CHDK uses the badpixel.bin/badpixel.txt files is that scanning the entire RAW buffer on every shot takes too long.
OK, thanks for the explanation. I'm more interested in correcting the "hot" pixels that show up in the jpg on my sx260 with long exposure night shots. I think Canon corrects the dead pixels when creating the jpg, doesn't it?

My testing in the last post showed that it takes 11.5 seconds to go through the raw buffer with get_raw_pixel() calls. Accessing the buffer more directly should speed things up a lot. I may have a go at it in the future.
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Re: Histogram
« Reply #109 on: 22 / January / 2013, 22:03:01 »
I think Canon corrects the dead pixels when creating the jpg, doesn't it?

Yes.
CHDK ports:
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  sx130is (1.01d & 1.01f)
  ixus310hs (1.00a & 1.01a)
  sx40hs (1.00d, 1.00g & 1.00i)
  g1x (1.00e, 1.00f & 1.00g)
  g5x (1.00c, 1.01a, 1.01b)
  g7x2 (1.01a, 1.01b, 1.10b)

 

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