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 ...

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 ...

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 of ...

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 ...

Kodak will use its own 5-megapixel CMOS sensor in the new $99 Easyshare C513 camera, due to ship this month. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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When snapping digital photos with our cameras and phones, it’s easy to forget what’s actually happening inside to get the light from your subject into the camera, and then up on its way to Instagram.

The bewildering array of products on the market and reams of associated technical jargon can make choosing the right CCD camera a daunting task, especially if you're unfamiliar with the technology. In ...

When buying a digital camera, there are many important specs to consider besides which color to pick. In years past, the way you’d approach this was to get the camera with the highest resolution – ...