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Effects of Diffraction Blur on Color Aliasing
Cameras without an anti-aliasing filter are prone to high-frequency artifacts which show up as colored speckles or edges aka color aliasing. These “Christmas tree” effects can be very distracting in an image that is reproduced at a larger size.
By stopping down, diffraction begins to reduce aliasing artifacts by introducing a level of blur by degrading contrast at all structure sizes, and by making a larger blur circle, effectively acts like an anti-aliasing filter. The aperture at which this occurs depends on the size of the photosites, and in rough practical terms, the sensor size*.
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