Rowan Crowe wrote:
I noticed some faint horizontal lines on a 300D print yesterday. I had
seen them on my new CRT monitor previously but I assumed that it was a
CRT oddity (I'm still getting used to moire after using an LCD for 3-4
years). At the time of the print I thought that I had a blocked jet,
but after some more editing just now I've realised that since both the
CRT and printer display it, the issue appears to be with the camera.

Is this normal? It shows in areas where there is a fair amount of one
colour, like sky. I'm hoping it's a normal quirk of the sensor rather
than something more serious like a half dead multiplexing transistor.

Here's a sample 1:1 crop of some sky, it's not the best example but
hopefully the lines are apparent.

http://media.sensationcontent.com/ro...ntal-lines.tif

My personal guess is that you shot that image at a high ISO and that the
camera applied a lot of colour noise reduction. When you apply a lot of
colour noise reduction you get that effect.
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