I n an era where digital photography is dominated by CMOS sensors, I find myself holding onto something different: every ...

With the advent of the smartphone and flatscreen TVs, most people assumed CCD sensors were going the way of the Dodo. But today, vintage digital cameras of the sort you might remember taking on ...

CCD is one of the oldest image-capture technologies for digital cameras and has long offered superior image quality compared with CMOS sensors, with better dynamic range and noise control.

Back in September, I wrote about Fujifilm’s latest sensor design for high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging. At that time, the company didn’t announce a camera with the sensor. Now they have. The camera’s ...

For some, any old digital camera falls under the banner, ... an older type of imaging sensor that fell out of use around 2010. CCD-based cameras have developed a cult following, ...

The megapixel wars continue as Kodak has just announced the KAF-50100 Image Sensor, a 50Mpixel (8176×6132 pixels) CCD sensor for large-format digital cameras. The sensor array measures 48×36mm (that’s ...

Here’s the CMOS sensor: If you spend a lot of time reading about cameras, you’re probably familiar with the terms CMOS sensor and CCD sensor, as they describe the two most popular digital camera ...

These Simple Animations Show How Digital Camera Sensors Work. CMOS and CCD, explained. By John Wenz Published: May 08, 2015 9:00 AM EDT. Save Article. Media Platforms Design Team.

The best DSLRs use 35mm sensors, that is, a sensor that is the same size as a frame of standard film. This is known as “full frame.” The D3, Nikon’s biggest, baddest DSLR camera, costs ...

Forty years after they first sketched out the idea for a digital image sensor, two former Bell Labs research scientists have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 "for the invention ...

Photo: Pascal Le Segretain / Staff / Getty Images News via Getty Images George E. Smith, one of the co-inventors of the CCD sensor, passed away on May 28th at his home in Waretown, New Jersey. The ...

The rise of the vintage digicam marks at least the second major nostalgia boom in the photography space. More than 15 years ago, a film resurgence brought thousands of cameras from the 1970s and ...