Hot pixel on new Fuji X-T4

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Just noticed a white pixel bottom right of picture. I thought it was on the EVF or LCD but found it while pixel peeping an image.

Camera is around 2 months old and bought refurbished from Fuji UK. Any advice on what to do?
 
Send it back. I would. You paid good money for it from a manufacturer, get posting ;)
 
Have you tried pixel mapping?
Something like this...

PIXEL MAPPING

A website for FUJIFILM digital camera manuals.
fujifilm-dsc.com fujifilm-dsc.com

Any camera/sensor can have this. It's not an issue per say if you can get rid of it.

by the way some cameras do this automatically every so often and people may not even notice it. There might be an option to set your camera to do it automatically too.
Worth looking into before sending your camera away to find out your next camera is no different :p

my camera manufacturer recommends doing it every 3 days!
one of my cameras do not have the option of manually triggering this process but it automatically does it every so often.

so if you got a hot pixel after two months its not really a surprise going by those standards.
 
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But the OP says it is a white pixel, is that not different?
 
Thank you all for your responses. I just checked and it is indeed a white pixel, still there after pixel mapping sadly. I haven’t gone through the rest of the recommendations in the pal2tech video since I’m out and about but will do as soon as I’m home.

I don’t think a dead pixel on EVF or LCD would annoy me but the sensor one certainly does.
 
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Thank you all for your responses. I just checked and it is indeed a white pixel, still there after pixel mapping sadly. I haven’t gone through the rest of the recommendations in the pal2tech video since I’m out and about but will do as soon as I’m home.

I don’t think a dead pixel on EVF or LCD would annoy me but the sensor one certainly does.
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AFAIK hot pixels are basically dead pixels. One dies every so often. Considering you have like 26 million of them it shouldn't be such a big deal ;)

Pixel mapping basically turns off the ones that are dead.

Let us know how you get along :)
 
I can report back that 3 hours after putting the camera back in the bag, I took the camera out to complete the test in the video, lo and behold the white pixel issue has disappeared. It turns out this was indeed a hot pixel (not a stuck pixel, strongly recommend pal2tech video for all).I pixel peeped around the same area and cant locate the guilty pixel anymore.

To provide some context on what I was doing, the camera was effectively out with me in the sun for 5 hours or so during which I occasionally switched between fitting and removing the extension tubes I got early morning. I did run pixel mapping multiple times when I saw the recommendation by @nandbytes but did not immediately notice a difference. I can't definitively judge whether pixel mapping assisted in the disappearance of the hot pixel later but it certainly did not hurt. I am happy to make pixel mapping part of my weekly maintenance regimen in any case.

Thank you all for the responses, all is well that ends well. Now I can go edit my first ever macro shots and spot clean that offending pixel out.
 
Pixel mapping is rather simplistic in the way it works.
Camera takes a dark frame and looks good bright spots to turn off or map out. There is no guarantee that it'll find all the dead pixels in one go. Also your camera can't really take "perfect" dark images as far as I know thanks to noise. So it might take a few pixel mapping trips for it do it's thing.

Anyway I am glad your camera is sorted :)
All I can suggest at this point is to see if your camera has an automatic pixel mapping mode.
 
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