Technology and Innovation

However, single chips can be larger than the individual chips in a three chip system, which means single sensors can have higher resolution and larger pixels, which gives a higher signal-to-noise ratio and a cleaner image. This consideration becomes important for “ultra-high-defi-nition” Digital Cinema cameras, such as the Dalsa Origin, Arri D-20, Vision Research Phantom and RED, all of which use large single-chip sensors. The resulting images have a high signal-to-noise ratio, which contributes to clean images.

BAYER PATTERN: Named after inventor Dr. Bryce Bayer, it is used with one-chip camera systems to allow the chip to “see” color. It’s broken down as RGBG – 50% green, 25% blue and 25% red.