How easy is it to tell if you have dead or ot pixels in a camera?

I'm used to hunting for them from time to time on a TFT screen but never even considered it on a digital camera :

George - your right, Slime101 isnt my real name! (Its Simon)

I think i will go over to park cameras later in the week and have a look, its only a couple of hours away

Graham - i'm all for supporting local shops, but we dont have many photo shops round here and they never stock what i am after - so they will never get my business like that, its a sad fact but if i cant try it i wont buy it and generally if i can get it cheeper on the net i will. I'm a child of the Net era - my whole business is basically internet based so i am very pro net shopping. (I dont make money if people dont shop, or want web/IT consultancy & design)

As i dont have a lot of spare cash and finding the money for the purchase will be very tricky i really need to keep the costs down as much as possible.

When things go wrong i hope with my fingers crossed they are a good company, failing that i fall back on my business experience and get all my rights are x,y,z, if that fails then i'm stuck but in most cases the manufaturer is ultimatly liable so you can call on them

Park cameras do seem to be the cheepest anyway so i shall probably visit them.

Although customer service isnt the top of my list you have bought it to my attentiona little more.

I would certainly expect the camera to be 100% perfect first time for that kind of money. Chances are i will be spending about £1800 on body, lenses and bits when i buy it!

Hi, i'm new around here

I am looking at getting the *istD and was wondering where the cheepest place to buy one in the UK is?