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Sensors explained

sensor-bayer

The sensor in a digital camera is equivalent to the film in a traditional camera. Where the film is processed at a lab to produce the image, digital cameras process the image data produced by the sensor and save the [...]

Foveon X3 sensor

Foveon

This is a unique three-layer sensor design used by Sigma in its SD14 digital SLR and DP1 and DP2 compacts. The Foveon sensor doesn’t organise red, green and blue pixels in a mosaic on a single layer. Instead, it copies [...]