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BRGBRGBRGThere are sensors with more esoteric Bayer filters, like to better capture in low light there are sensors which replace one of the G's with an N (neutral light / "no" color filter)
Goes something like: GRBGBR BGGRGG RGGBGG
Instead of: RG GB
All the others have now switched to bayer sensors.
[edit] That was google shopping popping up the Z150, which is presumably less expensive. The Z450 is 20k, body only, and the Z750 is "in store purchase only"
Here's a deep dive with an expert from Arri (big movie glass company) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1n2DR6H7mk
https://m.dpreview.com/news/1885231343/sigma-releases-update...
They are really dinosaurs of electronic imaging. Sans Sony, I can say ALL sensor makers from the dawn of the era died off, or were sold/resold a million times.
They eventually made a CMOS sensor development from scratch
I suppose whether those points are pros or cons depends on design/manufacturing capability, and considering rarity of modern 3CCD designs, likely decisions are difficulties outweigh advantages today.
The only similar thing nowadays is Foveon sensors where you have 3 color sites stacked on top of each other, but Foveon didn't really have the money to keep up with the arms race and nowadays the modern sensors are far better even though they do have to apply a low-pass filter to avoid mosaicing. When you have many, many, many nodes of improvement past the Foveon sensor, that stops being a big deal.
It was also never particularly widely adopted, because none of these things are new - it was a tough sell to market a "really high color-resolution!" 5mp camera going up against 20mp filtered sensors and 50mp unfiltered sensors even 10 years ago.
Interestingly though, the Foveon approach is similar to film. Film has multiple layers and all are exposed at once. There's no denying bayer is sort of weird. It's just very expensive to be the odd man out doing your own sensors. "Good enough" usually wins, Foveon may be betamax but bayer is VHS - and I use that analogy knowingly, in the sense of Betamax also doing key features worse in areas that consumers care a lot about.
I think you must be ignoring television and video here? Basically everything that was shot on digital video for broadcast for decades was shot on 3-sensor cameras, and every "serious" video operation from sports to news all the way down to wedding photographers and high school videographers with any scratch at all were using 3-ccd setups. Sony's current (and only) 8K TV studio camera uses 3 sensors.
It's a pretty deep topic and people do get degrees in basically just digital imaging. Not me though! I don't really understand most of this stuff...
[0] https://www.image-engineering.de/library/technotes/742-units...
That camera sensors mean a different thing for a pixel than what's typical for an image or an electronic display is a matter of convention.
True that interpolation is possible, but that's no reason to use different conventions as noted above.
I have seen a display manufacturer manipulate the same to artificially boost their resolution specifications.