I have been experimenting with macro photography (thanks, Lenspiration, for the fun assignment!!) and I have been noticing a lot of dead or hot pixels in my photos. Some of the pixels literally are gone (I am attaching a picture of two of them). I am guessing that there are 30-50 of “gone” pixels or red pixels in each image (the other picture shows a bunch of them). I have never noticed this before.
Does using a reversing ring cause these dead and hot pixels? For these pictures, I used a reversing ring on a 18-55mm kit lens to focus up close. Or does macro photography just magnify camera issues?
I can take them out with my photo editing software, but it is kind of annoying to try to remove 40 bad pixels from one image!
Thank you!
-Anastasia
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