> I think the plastic lens mount might be obstructing the light going to the sensor
It's actually a low-profile, 3D printed thing housing a glass UV/IR cut filter. The housing is flush with the glass filter unlike the stock Pi HQ camera lens holder. Removing the UV/IR cut results in full-spectrum photos that manifest the same color shift problem which is characteristic of CRA optimization (where they deliberately put the microlenses off-center toward the edges of the sensor.
> As far as I can tell, there's no lens array on the sensor[1][2]
I thought there is a lens array on almost all Sony sensors? [2] for example lists a "CRA characteristics of recommended lens" section on page 47, but this is not the full datasheet and only goes upto page 25. I can't find the full datasheet on the public internet unfortunately.
Well, if you want to try something different, here's a modified camera that removes the microlens array along with color filters to make the sensor monochrome.[1]
Alternatively, you could tilt the sensor as you move it to compensate. Perhaps moving it on a curved path to match the optical center? I don't know how well that would work with variable focal length lenses, though.
If you've ever seen a ball cutter attachment for a lathe, or one of those parallax eliminating camera mounts, you could step the sensor along a sphere instead of a plane.
> I think the plastic lens mount might be obstructing the light going to the sensor
It's actually a low-profile, 3D printed thing housing a glass UV/IR cut filter. The housing is flush with the glass filter unlike the stock Pi HQ camera lens holder. Removing the UV/IR cut results in full-spectrum photos that manifest the same color shift problem which is characteristic of CRA optimization (where they deliberately put the microlenses off-center toward the edges of the sensor.
> As far as I can tell, there's no lens array on the sensor[1][2]
I thought there is a lens array on almost all Sony sensors? [2] for example lists a "CRA characteristics of recommended lens" section on page 47, but this is not the full datasheet and only goes upto page 25. I can't find the full datasheet on the public internet unfortunately.