i really find the linked paper above insightful… sounds like these quad bayer sensors cause more trouble than they do good for the software trying to make sense of it… i mean: In this section, we show that Quad Bayer CFA has more aliasing than standard Bayer CFA.
also i doubt binning is better than just using one big pixel. one pixel has got to catch more photons, also it has 1x readout noise with presumably a simpler circuit attached to it.
so unless someone convinces me otherwise i’ll store these sensors in the “marketing bs” drawer of my brain… i mean if we’re doing esoteric things i think x-trans is very good. and the cheaper manufacturing argument sounds more like mobile phones than progress to me.