I would love if someone with a better understanding of cameras could explain what happened here. I associate that lavender colour most strongly with shooting without a lens or light leak. That grid pattern is also in the raw so I am assuming it's related to the actual pattern of the sensor (and that the few stray white dots are dust). What actually happened here, though? The sun was setting and was below the shot, is this some weird chance thing where especially bright light was hitting let's say the edge of the aperture at some weird angle to cause refraction onto the sensor that was most visible in a dark spot of the photo? Is that even a reasonable guess?
UAhh I'm gonna be sick ! OH
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Wha kinda camera....? Could it possibly be reflection off an autofocus sensor???
hmm well I Unno
I was thinking more like if it was a dslr where the autofocus sensor is like separate from the sensor that might cause a reflection inside, so idk with mirrorless.. something to do with the hot mirror/IR filter...? It is a mystery unless someone know
ah, gotcha. I was ready to believe there was some separate layering in the sensor or something because who knows how well I actually understand how a camera sensor works
i think your guess is pretty close, the purple splotch looks like a lens flare colored by chromatic abberation, and refraction of the sensor like that is definitely possible with multiple glass elements in the lens and a sufficiently bright light source.