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Leveraging dual pixel raw captures

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Leveraging dual pixel raw captures

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- One of the topics that I think every photographer is at least familiar with on a basic level, but might still be a little bit confused about, is that of the pixel. We talk about the number of megapixels, how many millions of pixels are included on a given sensor in a digital camera, for example, but as you're probably aware, with many cameras, each pixel in the camera is not actually recording a full pixel's worth of information with a sensor, a common sensor pattern, each individual sensor within, each individual pixel, essentially, is only capturing either red or green or blue light and then in post-processing all of that information is interpolated and put together so that we get a full-color image. Well, now things just got a little bit more complicated, because the Canon 5D Mark IV includes what's called dual pixel technology for the CMOS sensor. In essence, every single pixel has now been cut in half. It's divided into two pieces, the left side and the right side, and that…

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