I bought a Canon 1Ds a month or so ago. The manual sez "There may be a few dead pixels ...They number no more than 0.02 percent (standard tolerance) of all effective pixels.
So with your 6 Mpix Rebel could have up to 1200 pixels before Canon considers it out of spec, assuming this "standard tolerance" is what the industry uses (and if I did the math right).

There is other way how to remove the Hot Pixels noise. It is used for example in astronomy. (Imagine these guys trying to distinguish stars from Hot Pixels!).
Just after the shot, cover the lens and take a "Black Frame" picture. Later you could remove the noise by substracting the blind shot from the real shot. In such a short period during one session the Hot Pixels will be on the same spot.

I'm tired of seeing this false information repeatedly stated on this forum.
Hot pixels are inevitable in long exposures, period. They are RANDOM, so no amount of re-mapping will get rid of them. The reason the same ones show up in a sequence of photos is because they are STILL HOT. Take a long exposure,
and then take one the next day once the camera has cooled down, and you should have DIFFERENT hot pixels. This is inevitable in any digital camera, and fwiw, the Canon CMOS based cameras seem to have the fewest of them. Pixel remapping is only useful if you have hot or dead pixels that show up all the time in normal photos. I mainly shoot extremely long exposures with my Drebel (4mins or longer,
check my gallery), and am here to tell you that hot pixels are indeed random.
The easiest way to remove hot pixels is to take a dark frame immediately after the original shot, and then subtract it in photoshop. That way, the dark will have the
exact same hot pixels, and will effectively "map them out."
If you have one or two hot pixels in a 10sec image, then that is very low for a digital camera. Sending it in will not fix this, and is a waste of time. Try shooting
the same image with a D70 and see how many hot pixels you get - then you will be glad to have the DR.

Io cmq una telefonatina alla Canon la farei cmq, così, giusto per vedere cosa rispondono o come si giustificano queste case produttrici su queste "meraviglie" del digitale

galago ha scritto:
Per solidarieta': da quattro mesi ce ne ho uno rosso anche io sul lato destro, si vede che e' una specialita' della 300D. Se occorre, lo tolgo in photo editing e vivo felice lo stesso.. sperando che non sia contagioso..