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To elaborate a bit, almost all digital cameras take a single monochrome exposure but each sensor element has either a red, green, or blue filter over it, in a mosaic pattern. From the relative brightnesses of neighboring pixels color data can be reconstructed and interpolated to form a human-viewable image.


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