Without his filter, Larry Scarff, a former chairman of the Camera Phone Image Quality Standards Group, told The New York Times after Bayer's death, "we'd still be getting only black-and-white pictures from our digital cameras."
Po jeho smrti sa Larry Scarff, bývalý predseda štandardizačnej skupiny pre kvalitu obrazu telefónnych kamier (Camera Phone Image Quality Standards Group), vyjadril pre New York Times: “stále by sme z digitálnych kamier dostávali len čiernobiely obraz.”