Author Topic: Bringing a digital camera on a plane kills pixels? Read more on PhotoRumors.com (Read 696 times)

Em5 Pete · « **on:** July 09, 2011, 04:32:41 PM »

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...when you bring your camera on a plane over 20,000 feet, the gamma rays can actually fry some of the pixels on the sensor

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adash · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2011, 09:10:55 PM »

But how many fried pixels do the Nikon DSLRs on the International Space Station have?

count_zero · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:46:00 PM »

You can buy lead tape at golf shops. They use them to add extra mass to parts of the club for balance. Just take a sensor cap and tape it up with lead tape. To be extra safe tape up your underwear to protect the little soldiers especially if flying to Asia these days.

popo · « **Reply #3 on:** July 10, 2011, 03:46:20 AM »

Fuss over nothing. Ground shipping is preferred simply because it is much cheaper than air. And the odd dead pixel is easily mapped out anyway like they already are.

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