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Re:Sensors of largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapi... by nullc on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:31PM (#24462893)
uh. are they doing some kind of bizarre imaging with micro-lenses at the array and offsetting the focal plain? -- because otherwise it doesn't. Gaps are missing pixels.

Presumably for astronomical applications they don't matter.

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Re:Sensors of largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapi... by kellenmurphy on Monday September 14, 2020 @10:06AM (#24470289)
Usually it's gotten around because astronomical images are stacks of many integrations, and then you dither around. If you take 10 5-minute exposures, for example, and you dither around correctly, you might have a bunch of pixels with 9/10 or 8/10 data values... then you stack the images and weight those pixels accordingly.
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