ohh YES THAT!
Scientific term for that is: multispecrral imaging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral_image
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New Imaging System Promises 12-Times More Color Sensitivity than a Traditional Sensor
Most traditional image sensors work their magic by picking up Red, Green and Blue, but a new system promises to use Foveon-like technology to detect a whopping 36 color channels.
That's 12 times the color sensitivity!
New Imaging System Promises 12-Times More Color Sensitivity than a Traditional Sensor
What’s the use of an image sensor that’s 12 times more color sensitive than the human eye? We’re not entirely sure, but thanks to a team of researchers at
+François Simond as I'm sure you have tried this, I would be interested in the technical differences between the mark one eyeball and a top of the range DSLR.
Go out tonight and look at the moon, see how it illuminates the ground and how you can see the Mares, dark patches, on the surface of the moon. Now take a single exposure that exposes both the moon and the foreground the same way your eyes do. It just doesn't work.
+Mark Stronge I'm not exactly sure I understood what you said but I'll try.
In dark conditions you're right we don't see in colors anymore, our brain ends up building an image from that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_cell
It's the dynamic range I think I'm talking about. Our eyes can expose the foreground and the surface of the moon correctly but a camera never can
+Mark Stronge oh, your brain build a tone-mapped representation of your surroundings so you can "see" everything, but you can't see everything at the same time.
Your eye will optically adjust to let more or less light come in when you scan what's in front of you to help in this process too.