The Kodak filter array
This seems to be a brilliant and brilliantly simple idea from Kodak and one that may well become known as their rise from the dust.
“old” Bayer filter array, used in virtually every digital camera today
new Kodak array
I can imagine John Compton and John Hamilton, the nerds at Kodak, going: “We’ve got millions of them, why do we need so many photosites to detect color?!”
Interview with the brains behind the idea.
more: The Online Photographer post