In order to assign an intensity of

In order to assign an intensity of the missing,undetected colors of a specimen’s location to apixel of a color photograph, the intensity ofneighboring pixels is used and a value estimatedthrough interpolation. This means that, in a normalcolor image, 50% of the green informationand 75% of both the red and the blue informationis based on estimates. This is not a problemwith specimen structures that are significantlylarger than the individual pixels.Light can also be divided by beam splittersinto the three primary colors and each of thesecolors directed to a separate chip. These cameras,known as three-chip cameras, offer fullcolor resolution, since all the pixels of an individualchip only contain information about oneprimary color (Fig. 49). The color image thenresults from overlapping the simultaneouslyrecorded images from the three chips.