Those who recently bought the Oly C-2100uz do urself a favour and do a black frame test to test for hot pixels.
Do the test at all shutter settings below 4 sec at ISO 100 (at longer exposure time and high ISO, there will be noise no matter what u do, so don't bother).
If hot pixels appears in anything lesser than 4 sec (or whichever shutter speed, depending on ur tolerance level), send ur DC in to Oly SG to map out the hot pixels in ur CD...would take abt 1 day only.
Do the test at all shutter settings below 4 sec at ISO 100 (at longer exposure time and high ISO, there will be noise no matter what u do, so don't bother).
If hot pixels appears in anything lesser than 4 sec (or whichever shutter speed, depending on ur tolerance level), send ur DC in to Oly SG to map out the hot pixels in ur CD...would take abt 1 day only.