Many digital cameras include an optical low-pass filter (OLPF) in front of the image sensor to blur some of the finest details before they reach the sensor. While it may seem counterintuitive to make an image softer, an OLPF helps prevent a very ugly digital artifact called moiré.
Andrew of the YouTube Channel Andrew & Denae is back with another helpful "blind taste test" for camera lovers. This time, he's not comparing color science—he's comparing the results from Fuji's X-Trans sensors agains images captured through a standard Bayer Filter.
xkcd's comic today, titled "Color Pattern," is about the famous moiré pattern in photography, the interference patterns that appear when certain patterns are overlaid on each other.
No glass? No problem! At least that's Hitachi's goal. The Japanese company has announced development of a lensless camera that uses moire fringing and math instead of a lens to capture images. What's more, those images can be focused after you take the shot.
One of the things you kind of take for granted with a digital camera sensor is that every pixel is the same size, but Fujifilm may turn that idea on its head with a new RGBW sensor design that uses bigger pixels for white and green frequencies.
When Nikon released its D800E and D7100, people were surprised to learn that these models did without the optical low-pass filter (AKA the anti-aliasing filter). The resulting images from these cameras were sharper, but more easily fell pray to moire patterns in certain situations -- in other words, it was a tradeoff.
But Nikon would like you to have your cake and eat it too, at least according to a recent patent the company filed with the Japanese Patent Office.
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