Sensors & Digital Capture
5 terms
Backside-illuminated Sensor
Sensors & Digital Capture
A sensor design in which the wiring layer is moved behind the photodiodes so light reaches them unobstructed.
Banding Noise
Sensors & Digital Capture
Horizontal or vertical stripes appearing in heavily lifted shadows, caused by variations between readout channels.
Bayer Filter
Sensors & Digital Capture
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
Black Level
Sensors & Digital Capture
ADU
The numerical value a sensor reports for a completely unexposed photosite, subtracted during processing to establish true black.
Blooming
Sensors & Digital Capture
The spilling of charge from a saturated photosite into its neighbours, spreading a bright highlight beyond its true boundaries.