From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
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Understanding how an image sensor sees color
From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
Understanding how an image sensor sees color
- Even if you've never shot a black-and-white image yourself, you still have a lot of experience with a black-and-white world. Every time you go out at night or enter a room with low light, your eyes switch from cone-based color vision to rod-based black-and-white vision. You don't really notice the change to black and white because your brain understands that things are supposed to be color and so you kind of imagine what color things are supposed to be, but if you really pay attention to what you're seeing next time you're out at night, you'll realize that you are seeing only a black-and-white world. Another way to think of it is that you're seeing only the brightness of things. When your cones are shut down, you lack the ability to process hue or color information. Instead you only know if something is black, white, or an in-between shade of gray. When it measures the amount of light that has struck its photo sights, your camera's image sensor is doing the same thing that the rods…
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