Representation of the Fourier plane phase (in radians) sampled for an example of saturated image of a binary star (shown in Fig. 1) for the ideal nonsaturated image, for the recovered image, and for the residual. For the original image (upper left) the saturation results in large amplitude aberrations in the outer ring. After recovery (upper right), the phase is very close to what it would be if the sensor had remained linear (lower left). The difference between the two (lower right) shows small residuals concentrated in the outermost ring.