A new patent discloses Olympus new sensor patent with built-in Polarizing Filter technology.The sensor actually composed of two different layers. The first layer captures light and ts actually a RGB layer of a conventional sensor and just under that layer we have a second sensor capturing the info about the polarization of the light.
What a Polarizing Filter actually do ?, A good Polarizing filter Makes a Blue Sky Bluer, Enhances Clouds and Eliminates Reflections.
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