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Most large-format single-sensor cameras employs the Bayer CFA (color filter array) to encode the RGB

color information. Typically, the RAW outputs from these cameras constitute a single output signal

which is subsequently debayered to structure the three separate RGB video components. This process

entails some degree of reconstruction errors depending upon the sophistication of the debayering

algorithm. The EOS C500 and C300 cameras also employ the classic Bayer CFA – but we deploy an

alternative strategy to the construction of the separate HD / 2K RGB frames as described in Reference

[1]. No demosaicing processes whatever are employed.

Within the 4K CMOS image sensor there is an innovative readout mechanism that directly reads out four

2K video components in parallel. They are R, Gr, Gb, and B (each at 1920 x 1080 or, in the case of

the C500, they can be selected as 2048 x 1080 depending upon the particular choice of "2K"). Because

of the nature of the Bayer pattern the two green components Gr and Gb are spatially offset with respect

to each other. When they are summed to form the final 2K Green component the traditional first order

horizontal and vertical sidebands cancel which eliminate a major source of aliasing. As a consequence

the optical low pass filter can be better optimized for an unusually high green MTF. For more

information on how this works please see Reference [2].

The Sensitometric characteristics of the two cameras are identical as described in Table 1 and are more

fully described in Reference [3].

Table 1