This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Panasonic is claiming a major breakthrough in the world of camera sensors, saying that it has doubled the color sensitivity with a new technology called ‘Micro Color Splitters.’Pixels in camera sensors are colorblind, and can only capture color information with the help of special filters that only capture red, green, or blue light. That’s why Leica’s new M Monochrom camera can improve on image quality — it simply does away with the color filter array (CFA) to allow the incoming light to hit the colorblind sensor directly.
Color filter arrays are ubiquitous and work well, but have the downside of only transmitting some of the incoming light onto the image sensor itself. Much of the light is absorbed by the filter itself (that’s what filters do, right?) — Panasonic says the light loss traditionally sits at 50-70%.
Photography is all about capturing light, so why should cameras throw any of it away?
Panasonic’s new Micro Color Splitters are an alternative to these color filters. Instead of filtering out light, the splitters act as tiny prisms to split the incoming light into red, green, and blue light onto multiple pixels on the sensor. Color information is still captured, …
By: Michael Zhang
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