The godfather of the active-pixel CMOS sensor, Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for ...

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 ...

Mainstream CMOS chipmaking technology is becoming more competitive for capturing light in digital cameras. It's swept the high-end SLR market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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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 sensor types. You probably ...

PARIS — Sony Corp. is recalling eight models of its Cyber-shot digital still cameras because of a packaging-related defect in the units' captively manufactured CCD image sensors. Further, an earlier ...

This morning, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers who made advances in optical technologies. Charles Kao won the half the prize for leading the search for development of ...

Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. has revved up its line of FinePix digital cameras with three new Super CCD models — the FinePix F601 Zoom, FinePix S602 Zoom and FinePix S2 Pro. All are Mac compatible and the ...