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I have only started shooting in RAW and have noticed pink spots on them. They are never in the same location and don't affect some photos, they just seem to appear every few shots. It never happened when I shot using JPEG (setting "L"). It only happens in RAW. I have a Canon 550D. I have added a pic showing what I mean. Any advice would be great, thanks.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Could you post another example showing the same thing in a different scene? (Does it change based on the contents of the scene?) \$\endgroup\$
    – mattdm
    Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 3:48
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    \$\begingroup\$ I ask because the reflection in the water suggests that there's some actual bright pink light somewhere. Are you using a UV filter to protect your lens? \$\endgroup\$
    – mattdm
    Commented Jun 17, 2012 at 12:21
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    \$\begingroup\$ That appears to be coming from the interior of a building or reflections of something else, like a advertising sign, off the windows. It's not clear at all that the pink isn't supposed to be there. \$\endgroup\$
    – Olin Lathrop
    Commented Jun 18, 2012 at 0:46
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    \$\begingroup\$ And what if you shoot in JPG+RAW mode, on the JPG file ? \$\endgroup\$
    – Oliver
    Commented Jul 12, 2012 at 23:59
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    \$\begingroup\$ IMO unlikely it's anything to do with RAW vs JPG. @Oliver's suggestion is a good one, shoot RAW+JPG and see if you see these in the JPG too. \$\endgroup\$
    – MikeW
    Commented Feb 16, 2013 at 21:31

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The pink spots are reflections in the building's windows from (I would assume) whatever is making the equally pink reflection in the river.

Unless you can post several dissimilar images displaying the pink spot issue I don't think we're going to be able to give a more comprehensive answer.

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The large pink spots in the image look like they should be there from the out of shot light source as it isn't on the white/beige wall parts and interacts with the edges on the black/glassy panels.

But there are other problems from the 100% view area. There is a white spot with some surrounding distortion just above the middle arched window at the bottom. That bright spot could be the sign of a dead pixel on the sensor.

You don't have to pixel-peep to see the distortion which comes about because in the 550D the raw format is not truly raw but a mildly applied lossy compression. This effect is not unique to that camera and my Nikon is the same. And because the JPEG (if it's different) is likely to be based on the actual raw data so may be able to compensate better.

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    \$\begingroup\$ "the 550D the raw format is not truly raw but a mildly applied lossy compression". I'm curious, do you have a reference for this? If this was true, why aren't photographers up in arms about this? I always assumed that the compression was lossless. \$\endgroup\$
    – Chinmay Kanchi
    Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 14:56
  • \$\begingroup\$ @ChinmayKanchi Maybe that's referring to the sRAW formats? I don't know if the 550D supports them. \$\endgroup\$
    – user
    Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 15:13
  • \$\begingroup\$ To be honest few people would spot it as it is quite mild, but it's definitely there. You just need to apply some very severe level adjustments in post processing and it basically jumps out at you... \$\endgroup\$
    – James Snell
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It is possible that your images are partially corrupted. This most likely would be the result of a bad card. You should try taking photos with a different card. Otherwise, I don't know what it could be. You should probably contact Canon's tech support.

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    \$\begingroup\$ A corruption in the image data would not yield this error as the files image portion of the file contains 'checksums' which would fail if there was file corruption. \$\endgroup\$
    – James Snell
    Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 14:06

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