Considering you usually shoot RAW, and debayer and process in post, the camera hasn't done any of that.
It's only smartphones that might be doing internal AI Debayering, but they're already hallucinating most of the image anyway.
Considering you usually shoot RAW, and debayer and process in post, the camera hasn't done any of that.
It's only smartphones that might be doing internal AI Debayering, but they're already hallucinating most of the image anyway.
If you care about trying to get an image that is as accurate as possible to the scene, then it is well within your interest to use a Convolutional Neural Network based algorithm, since these are amongst the highest performing in terms of measured PSNR (which is what nearly all demosaicing algorithms in academia are measured on). You are maybe thinking of generative AI?
In cinema, you just use a 6K sensor and use conventional debayering for a perfect 4K image. Even the $2000 Sony FX-30 ships with that feature nowadays. Combined with a good optical low pass filter, that'll also avoid any and all moiré noise.
In broadcast, if you worry about moiré noise or debayering quality, you just buy a Sony Z750 with a three-chip prism design, which avoids the problem entirely by just having three separate full-resolution sensors.
The underlying data is always captured as a RAW file, and only discarded if you’ve configured the camera to only store the JPEG image (discarding the original RAW file after processing).
Viewing any preview image on any camera implies a debayered version: who says is it JPEG-encoded - why would it need to be? Every time I browse my SD card full of persisted RAWs, is the camera unnecessarily converting to JPEG just to convert it back to bitmap display data?
> The underlying data is always captured as a RAW file, and only discarded if you’ve configured the camera to only store the JPEG image (discarding the original RAW file after processing).
Retaining only JPEG is the default configuration on all current-generation Sony and Canon mirrorless cameras: you have to go out of your way to persist RAW.