Nikon D80 - Is it worth getting serviced?

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I've had my D80 for a couple of years now (I bought it 2nd hand) and its starting to get old now. Last time I checked it had taken over 26k pictures, would estimate thats well over 30k now.
I just cleaned the sensor and took a picture of my wall to look for dust spots and noticed 8 dead pixels!

Does anyone know how much Nikon would charge for a service and what they change? I keep looking at the D300s, just not sure I can justify the price of it. If servicing is expensive though an upgrade might be the better option :lol:
 
New sensor is very expensive. How do you know these are dead pixels? What ISO were you using and do you have NR? Even if they were there software should detect and mask them? 30k is nothing. But if you fancy a new toy then why not.
 
D90 is a serious option, it's a great deal at the mo and performs much better at high iso than D80, I'd keep the d80 as a 2nd body unserviced with software dealing with dead pixels as Daugirdas suggests.
 
daugirdas said:
New sensor is very expensive. How do you know these are dead pixels? What ISO were you using and do you have NR? Even if they were there software should detect and mask them? 30k is nothing. But if you fancy a new toy then why not.
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ISO100, they are harder to spot when using a higher ISO though as the noise seems to mask them a bit. Nice and clear on low ISO though.
There has been a blue pixel in the dead centre for as long as I can remember, the other 7 I only noticed yesterday when examining the picture for dust. What software would mask them? I only really use Photoshop, but could clone them out if needed.

Is the D90 a worthy upgrade? I would have thought it more of a sideways move and a D300 or D300s to be a proper upgrade?
 
I've just upgraded from a D80 to a D90 recently which I got for £450 used, the screen on the back is huuuge! The live view's useful for manual focusing. I'm quite enjoying using mine! I can't really tell you whether it'll be a worthy upgrade for you but so far I'm pleased.
 
Are you shooting JPEG or RAW?

Most RAW engines knock out dead/hot pixels, certainly Lightroom, which uses the same ACR engine as Photoshop.

If you are shooting JPEG it might be worth trying to open the image through Camera RAW (from inside PS) instead of directly, which you can do with the recent versions of Photoshop. I don't know if this will work (I think the pixel masking may rely on information that's only in RAW files) but it's worth a shot.
 
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Are you shooting JPEG or RAW?
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Occasionally shoot in RAW, but 90% of time I just shoot in JPEG.

At the moment its not really a massive issue, by the time the image has been resized you can't notice them. Just worried that as the camera is getting older, its going to get worse and more will die or get stuck (which ever is happening)
 
buckle247 said:
Occasionally shoot in RAW, but 90% of time I just shoot in JPEG.

At the moment its not really a massive issue, by the time the image has been resized you can't notice them. Just worried that as the camera is getting older, its going to get worse and more will die or get stuck (which ever is happening)
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Use RAW 100% of the time. You should never see those pixels again, and get massively better IQ, just like buying a new body. I'd recommend getting Lightroom 3 as soon as it comes out.
 
daugirdas said:
Use RAW 100% of the time. You should never see those pixels again, and get massively better IQ, just like buying a new body. I'd recommend getting Lightroom 3 as soon as it comes out.
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The only thing I don't like about RAW is you can't quickly view your pictures in Windows. You have to load up Photoshop to look at them, windows doesn't even give a preview (unless anyone knows of a download that allows this?)
 
Cheers, that doesn't seem to work though. Think it only supports 32bit systems.

I have managed to find one from a company called Ardfry Imaging that works, think its only a 15 day trial though.
 
Cheers but thats still a separate piece of software from the looks of it, may as well load up lightroom or photoshop instead.

The Ardfry Imaging codec works perfect, will just have to see what happens when the 15 day trial ends.
 
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