Quote Originally Posted by brewmaster15 View Post
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and this was the GEM I was seeking... What you are looking at is the "film" of the camera. In this case its a 10.2 megapixel CCD. The light you are seeing is reflected from my phones flash. Not sure what exactly causes it but its beautiful. ...
It's called a bayer filter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter