Hot / dead pixel elimination in later versions of Camera RAW

Hi!
I was wondering if we could get some under the hood info on how Camera RAW handles hot / dead pixels. The standard answer 'Camera RAW eliminates these automatically' does not apply I'm afraid. I've seen more and more of these stuck pixels in my final output over the last few CR versions. Now, it could be my camera showing its age, but I'd like to know more about how Camera RAW maps stuck pixels.
I've just re-developed a set of some stage performance from last year, Canon 5D Mark II, high ISO and pushed, yes, but thats my whole niche. There's stuck pixels in all of them in the same spots. So I wondered how camera raw handles the whole mapping / processing of hot pixels. The set of images are here, and there's access to full size images also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev/sets/72157627732199199/ (I did clone out the stuck pixels on just a few of them though). It's a mix of processing version 2010 and 2012. Did not make a difference to the stuck pixels.
Mathias

Well, the issue with higher ISO images is: what's a hot pixel vs. what's a result of salt & pepper noise–those are different artifacts...
When you start ramping up the ISO (and use PV 2010 or 2012 without luminance noise reduction) the likelyhood of random bright (more or less) pixels (or subgroups of pixels) goes up.
The hot pixel fix is still in LR/ACR...but it becomes a battle between what's a hot pixel vs what's a result of camera noise...and ACR/LR tend to be very conservative when it comes to mapping out a hot pixel (or dead or constantly a certain color pixel).
ACR/LR can really only estimate what constitutes a hot pixel because there's no way of recording the XY position of a single pixel and telling it how to handle the mapping. It's an auto thing and as such it's subject to sometimes not working perfectly...
To really determine the issue, one (or Eric) would need an actual raw file–not something that's already been processed and resample. The more examples of ACR/LR not doing an optimal result the better the likelyhood somebody will look at doing something about it.

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