Hi I bought my Nikon Z6 ii back in November 2021and now I have been struggling with what looks like hot pixels. I get a few of them and they are all white. It happens even at not so high ISO like 400-500 and not in long exposure.wHere are some examples. Sorry I posted the jpgs because the RAW files just take forever to upload and my connection isn't the fastest:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/998yz9403n6l5naw9msx0/h?dl=0&rlkey=0elu5jkcyrsi0yfzg9k4qnlkqThe exposure is only 1/20, 1/15 and max 1/8. I shot without a tripod because I didn't have one and I can hold the camera until roughly 1/10 on a good day. Some of these hot pixels are visible even without magnifying the picture.I have also added some pics taken during the day to see if those are also hot pixels (this is ISO 100!!) or not because I honestly cannot tell at times.I am not sure what to do if to send it away or what. All I know is that this camera is just frustrating to say the leats. Ever since switching to a mirrorless I have been having issues left and right. Now I understand why most people stick to phones. Easy to use, none of this b*cks complications and none of these issues.Can someone help? I did the mapping via the tool and the sensor cleaning twice. I don't know if I still have them as I haven't tested it out yet, just got back home from Montenegro where these pics were shot.thank you!

lauren_farley79 wrote:..my Nikon Z6 ii ..have .. what looks like hot pixels.I did the mapping via the tool and the sensor cleaning twice.I don't know if I still have them as I haven't tested it out yet.Maybe test again and see if they're gone.

I don’t think i can until I’m out again to be honest. I’m only wondering if the camera would need to be sent for repairs if they are not gone

lauren_farley79 wrote:..my Nikon Z6 ii ..have .. what looks like hot pixels.I did the mapping via the tool and the sensor cleaning twice. I don't know if I still have them as I haven't tested it out yet.Maybe test again and see if they're gone.lauren_farley79 wrote:I don’t think i can until I’m out again to be honest. I’m only wondering if the camera would need to be sent for repairs if they are not goneYou can’t put the lens cap on and look in the viewfinder?

I did that and I don’t see them on the LCD screen (the hot pixels I can usually see them within the camera too if I magnify), but I’ll need to check with the laptop too I guess

I have about 4 hot pixels on my D500 and I just turn on hot pixel removal in my Raw editor. Almost all cameras have a few.

I just removed a few more hot pixels on my March 2019 Z6, with the "clean twice in a row" method. That's the first time I've had to do it since it was new. Worked!To test in camera: take an image with the lens cap on. Review the image on the rear screen, and use the zoom buttons to examine a small section at a time. If you know where the hot pixels were, then zoom way in around that area.EDIT--I didn't read your reply carefully, I thought you were examining the screen while it showed the live view, not image review of a previous shot.~~~In your image:Bottom right, zoomed to 200%. I marked them with red arrows.  click Original Size to see the arrows and pixels.I edit NEF images, and hot pixels look very bright in the editor. Often they are colors instead of white. So these seem a bit unusual to me.

When I bought a used Z6 a few years ago I noticed a few hot pixels.By using the Clean Sensor option (Camera Setup menu > Clean Image Sensor > Clean now) once or twice I got rid of them.It's also a good idea to enable sensor cleaning when the camera is switched off (Camera Setup menu > Clean Image Sensor > Automatic cleaning > Clean at shutdown).

off topic of hot pixels,Sensor cleaningThe sensor cleaning function doesn't seem to get rid of most dust particles for me. They are stuck with static electricity, I suppose. Blowers don't help -- they can remove the biggest particles that I can easily see when viewing the sensor, but not the smaller ones.Wet cleaning works, but it's more complicated to perform.I've been using a Dust Patrol sensor brush, a narrower 16mm one, with multiple passes on the sensor. This works quite well. Blow the sensor, charge the brush static by blowing it, brush passes lightly on the sensor, one more blower to finish. I might have a few extremely small dots left, but these only show up in very stopped down apertures and with non-patterned areas of the image.My dust test:use Windows Notepad full screen to get a plain white screen. Manual, 1/10 second, f/16, auto ISO. Focus on infinity, move the camera while shooting to completely blur the white screen. Dust shows up as small blobs with a contrast boost.