CCD technology was the driving force behind early digital photography, and its popularity persisted until the late 2000s.

Gavin Stoker wonders why everyone loves CCD cameras so much? Is he missing something? The post Why does everyone love CCD ...

There are two major types of image sensors for digital cameras and camcorders: CCD (charged-couple device) and CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, sometimes also known as active pixel ...

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 ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’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 ...

Most camera sensors today use CCD (charge-coupled device) technology, ... Sony's 12-megapixel A700 sensor has more than 4,000 analog-to-digital converters, said Mark Weir, ...

First Working Digital Camera - 1975 Fresh out of graduate school, Steve Sasson worked on a project at Kodak's research lab to take advantage of the newly created CCD sensor.

The affected camera models are the DSC-F88, DSC-M1, DSC-T1, DSC-T11, DSC-T3, DSC-T33, DSC-U40 and DSC-U50. Sony will repair faulty cameras free of charge. Just over a year ago, similar sensor problems ...

For example, the 1/1.8-inch CCD sensor in my Ricoh GR Digital I (released in 2005) is archaic compared with the large CMOS sensors found in today’s high-end compacts, such as the current ...

Because its sensors are used by other companies, the October 2005 problems reach beyond Sony and may involve more than 100 models of digital still camera. At that time, several other digital ...