I bought the ultra-portable Sanyo Xacti E6x, for casual photo shooting.
Unfortunately, I was a victim of “bad pixels”: points in the CCD sensor grid, that aren’t responding properly, causing wrong colors to appear on the photo.

After hundreds of photos with exactly the same “bad pixels” problem, at the exact same locations – (218, 392) and (2218, 1052) –, I am 100% sure that I wil return the product to the vendor (Pixmania). 

You can download one of those photos (the most uninteresting of them all), but keep in mind that it has a resolution of 2216×1052 [2.5 MB].

320 pixels wide version of SANY009.JPG - a 2816x2112 (6 MPixels) photo

Picture 1 (of 4) – 320 pixels version of SANY009.JPG: a 2816×2112 (6 MPixels) original, taken with a Sanyo Xacti 6Ex, with bad pixels.

320 pixels wide version of SANY009.JPG, with red arrows pointing to the bad pixels.

Picture 2 (of 4) – This is picture #2, with small red arrows pointing to the bad pixels, which are only easily visible on the original 2816×2112 (6 MPixels) file, or in the full size snaps below.

selection showing bad Pixel at 218,392 of SANY009.JPG

Picture 3 (of 4) – A full size cut of the region with the bad pixel at coordinates 218, 392.

selection showing bad Pixel at 2218,1052 of SANY009.JPG

 Picture 4 (of 4) – A full size cut of the region with the bad pixel at coordinates 2218, 1052.