If that were the case (4-shots to un-Bayer), the patent would also cover the 8-shot Olympus version, which takes 4 shots around each of two locations.
No, not necessarily. Olympus is doing a couple of things weird as someone who used the RAWdigger found- the 2nd set of 4 shots have an RGB range "capped" - it's not the full range. Why? Don't know. It may very well be that doing their 8 shots improves the image quality over the 4 shot solution, though we were wondering 4-shots for 16 MP only.
Hasselblad offers two settings, 4 shots and 6 shots. Six shots sounds like a terrible idea, since it re-introduces Bayer artifacts, which the Olympus example seems to show are a more important source of apparent loss of sharpness than the finite pixel size.
That depends on how Hasselblad handles the 6 shots- if for example, they picked only luminance from green photo sites from the extra two. Not saying they are doing this, just pointing out it's not necessarily the case.
Fuji's problems with the expanded "random" Bayer cell in their latest cameras also shows that color acutance is more important than we may have thought.
I disagree with Fuji's problems - I think the best raw converters show a lot of detail in the conversions. It depends on some subjects and Fuji benefits from extra green/luminance/detail photo sites. The raw converters that convert it well, the images look pretty darn good. In B&W even more so.
So I'm hoping for a four-shot version in which the image stabilization still is operating (4 shots from a slowly moving frame frame of reference which the IBIS cancels out) for my OM-D E-M1 Vii. Where do I put my order in?
scott
Looks again there is a patent on that. But we'll see. Keep in mind Olympus was talking 10-shot for the 1/60 version, not 4 shots. So it's more about them moving the sensor faster with more accuracy and faster processing of the incoming data than doing less shots.
- Ricardo