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An Imaging Engineer’s Notes, Part 1: The Four Core Modules of a Digital Camera

Modern cameras aren’t black boxes. Image quality emerges from the tight coordination of optics, sensors, ISPs, and intelligent control algorithms—each a critical system with its own constraints and trade-offs.

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