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Sensors & Digital Capture

Backside-illuminated Sensor

A sensor design in which the wiring layer is moved behind the photodiodes so light reaches them unobstructed.

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Banding Noise

Horizontal or vertical stripes appearing in heavily lifted shadows, caused by variations between readout channels.

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Bayer Filter

The dominant colour filter array pattern, using two green filters for every red and blue in a repeating square of four.

RGGB in 2×2 blocks
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Black Level

The numerical value a sensor reports for a completely unexposed photosite, subtracted during processing to establish true black.

ADU
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Blooming

The spilling of charge from a saturated photosite into its neighbours, spreading a bright highlight beyond its true boundaries.