How An OSC Loses Resolution & Gets It Back

Color astrocameras can lose resolution, and they can get it back. The problems are in the color filter array. And the solutions are in the density of pixels sampling the lens, and in the demosaicing.

Sources:

Resolution, aliasing and light loss - why we love Bryce Bayer's baby anyway https://www.dpreview.com/articles/356...

COLOR VS. MONOCHROME SENSORS https://www.red.com/red-101/color-mon....

RESOLUTION VS. ALIASING: IMPLICATIONS FOR MOTION CAPTURE https://www.red.com/red-101/resolutio...

THE BAYER SENSOR STRATEGY https://www.red.com/red-101/bayer-sen...

Color filter array recovery using a threshold-based variable number of gradients https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/199...

Resolution https://www.photometrics.com/learn/wh....

Comparing color and monochrome camera sensor performance in astrophotography http://www.nightanddayastrophotograph...

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