take a look at the image issues on high contrast moving water with the new firmware, pretty funky stuff going on, can this be worked on?
https://youtu.be/ywW78_fZfL0
focus still off its biased too close
Well, that is just how Bayer-Sensor work.
They have a pattern of Red Green and Blue Color Filters over the individual Pixels of the Sensor, to be able to produce a color image from an sensor which actually just captuers brightness information for each individual pixel.
The Problem with that is, that the software (which then later tries to make a color-Image from that Only-Brightness-Information and the information of the Pattern,) Can get easily confused by single very bright pixels.
So if an very bright reflection on the water appears and it only takes up one single pixel in the final image, how would the software know if it was white or the color of the individual Pixel, for example Red?
I kind of allready explained this exact problem in an other thread " i am professional colorist..."
For most of todays Video-Cameras this is not a problem. Because they have sensors with much higher Resoultion than what the final Video would be. For example a 24Megapixel Sensor which captures FullHD or 4K video. Final Video still is just 2MP or 8MP, and that is way less than the original 24MP from the sensor. So there is room for heavy interpolation to get an more accurate result for the real brightness and color-value of each pixel.
For highspeed-Cameras like the chronos that is mostly not the case. Since those cameras allready push the limit of what is technicaly possible, there is no room for downscaling and interpolation like this.
So capturing stuff like this, shown in your test, is tricky in any case with that camera.
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Your best bet would propably be to try using RAW and an different debayer algorithm or Debayering software. some of them could give better results than this for that special scene. Otherwise you will most likely end up with lots of those colorfull pixels all over your footage. Not sure, tho if you could get rid of all of them with this Method, but i guess, worth a try anyways.
Only other thing i could think of, is to add an physical anti-Alliasing filter in front of the Chronos-Sensor. That will solve the problem about the colorfull pixels mostly but will make your result more unsharp.
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For more Information about all this just look up information about debayering / demosaicing and Bayer-Sensors in general, should answer most of your questions.
