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[davidarmenb]

The QBC (Quad-Bayer Coding) process is not the same as a Quad-Bayer Filter.

That is correct; no it is not. The latter is a physical color filter in front of the sensor, and the former is a process in the software to interpolate a traditional bayer filter from the physical quad bayer filter.

 

[admgeo]

That is correct; no it is not. The latter is a physical color filter in front of the sensor, and the former is a process in the software to interpolate a traditional bayer filter from the physical quad bayer filter.

I only got on this forum because this same question keeps coming up as if this sensor configuration is a bad thing, especially regarding mapping. My point was that the quad-bayer technologies do not affect the true 50MP capability of the 1" sensor. People are being mislead as if the camera has 4 smaller sensors which is not the case. The quad-bayer technology kicks in when you activate 12MP mode. This is when the binning takes place in order to get better low light performance. It "effectively" changes the pixels from 2.61µm to 5.63µm. There's nothing wrong with trying to map with this model. Of course it will never match the quality of a mechanical shutter but tech has come a looong way since the days of the Mavic 2 Pro and Phantom 4 Pro battles. Now the question is will we get the SDK release as we did with the 2S.

 

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That is correct; no it is not. The latter is a physical color filter in front of the sensor, and the former is a process in the software to interpolate a traditional bayer filter from the physical quad bayer filter.

A QB filter is no different from a vanilla Bayer filter when operating in quad mode.