That's exactly the issue – so it depends on the kind of RAW format ! CCD and camera manufacturers produce all kinds of light sensitive arrays and generate various extra data to store into their image formats.

This is i.e. a typical (and popular) Bayer pattern of pixels:

But that's just one (simplified) example of many patterns.


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