Sensors & Digital Capture
5 terms
Sensors & Digital Capture
Backside-illuminated Sensor
A sensor design in which the wiring layer is moved behind the photodiodes so light reaches them unobstructed.
Sensors & Digital CaptureBanding Noise
Horizontal or vertical stripes appearing in heavily lifted shadows, caused by variations between readout channels.
Sensors & Digital CaptureBayer Filter
The dominant colour filter array pattern, using two green filters for every red and blue in a repeating square of four.
Sensors & Digital CaptureBlack Level
The numerical value a sensor reports for a completely unexposed photosite, subtracted during processing to establish true black.
Sensors & Digital CaptureBlooming
The spilling of charge from a saturated photosite into its neighbours, spreading a bright highlight beyond its true boundaries.