• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    FWIW, pixels don’t have to be square or in a grid.

    Some professional cameras take photos with hexagonal pixels, for example

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      FWIW, pixels don’t have to be square or in a grid.

      Are autochrome starch particles subpixels? How many are there in a pixel?

      Some professional cameras take photos with hexagonal pixels, for example

      Really? I thought the Bayer filter was near-universal, and Wikipedia does not list what you just mentioned.

      Anyway, older LCDs in portable color TVs, cameras and camcorders did use that pattern but that’s on the display side.

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        You prompted me to look it up and my knowledge is apparently a bit dated on that one

        I’d apparently read about Fujifilm doing this with some of their older CCD based sensors and they shifted away from that ages ago!

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          So they probably didn’t output .raw images, I think those are more recent. That would have been a weird use of the file format!

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            Apparently they did have a raw format called RAF and the processing involved “demosaicing” funnily enough given the thread we are in