The image sensor market is booming during a period of unprecedented change. Image sensors, semiconductor devices that convert photons into electrons for display or storage, are being used in more and ...

Digital imaging has taken great strides since development of the first prototype digital camera 30 years ago – a 10,000-pixel device, powered by 16 AA batteries, which stored data on a cassette tape.

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 ...

Guessing by the noise improvements... I'm going to say that they [the industry] just can't get noise levels down enough on CCD sensors hence the move to CMOS. Nikon made some serious leaps and bounds ...

Why would you use CCD when CMOS is newer and cheaper? It used to be film that determined the look of a camera. Change the film - or the way it was processed - and the look would be different. But now ...

True camera weenies love to debate the merits of CMOS vs. CCD image sensors (and don't get even get them started on Foveon), so we await a whole new round of arguing with Kodak's entry into CMOS camp.

CCD (Charge-coupled Devices) are a technology used in optical microscopy to record images of organic and inorganic structures in fine detail. This article will discuss these devices and why they are ...