On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 01:56:11PM +0200, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote: > Jacopo Mondi writes: > > >> BTW ISP can't really do that color balancing for you, since the sensor > >> operates at its native bit resolution and ISP is limited to the output > >> format, which is currently only 8-bit. > > > > I'm not sure what do you mean here either :) > > Well, the sensor does DSP on 12 bits internally, or something alike. > Then it outputs (currently) 8 bits of data, the rest being lost. If you > do color balancing etc. on this, you may get worse results (like color > banding). But if you apply colour gains in the sensor, they will apply before black level correction or lens shading compensation in the ISP, which I think will cause other issues, possibly worse. Out of curiosity, if you can tell, what do you use this sensor with ? -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
