I just got my new *ist DL last night. I noticed that there seemed to be a hot pixel or a cluster of hot pixels in many of the images.

Today, diving a bit mroe into a the problem I disable noise reduction and take soem more photos which will cause hot pixels to show up. here are the results...

http://www.vulc4n.com/images/test3.jpg
http://www.vulc4n.com/images/hicont.jpg

The second photo has increased contrast, but as you can see the hot pixels are in the exact same spots in both.

What to do now? Is this just a fluke or am I more or less garunteed to get hot /dead pixels with every *ist DL? I don't want to start into the game of sending the camera back to get one that is just as bad.