OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensor

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OmniVision is the new holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest commercially available image sensor. The tiny device (pictured above in a camera module next to a grain of pepper) measures just half a millimetre squared, and will have a sig...

New Sony RX100 IV Compact Camera 40x Super Slow Motion and 4K Video

Posted on 11/06/2015 by i4u

Sony announced two of the most advanced Cyber-shot cameras from the company, the compact RX100 IV (model DSC-RX100M4) and high-zoom RX10 II (model DSC-RX10M2) cameras.The two new models both feature...

iPhone 6S to debut with 12MP Sony Camera Sensor

Posted on 25/05/2015 by ahmed

With its release drawing near, speculations regarding the next iPhone have already taken over the internet by storm. The next iPhone, namely the iPhone 6S, is being rumored to be the iPhone that...

iPhone 6 to Come with at least 10MP Camera and Improved Filter

Posted on 04/02/2014 by sumayah

Apple's iPhone 5 was proved to be a big success. And now the rumor mill turns towards the next iPhone model. The latest rumors are circling about iPhone 6 camera. Taiwan's sources (via MacRumors)...

Canon unveils four new PowerShot point-and-shoot cameras

Posted on 22/08/2013 by gene

Canon is known for its excellent cameras and lenses. Although the Japanese manufacturer has flooded the consumer market lately with DSLRs, at the end of the day, users would still want to capture...

Fujifilm and Panasonic’s organic CMOS image sensor boosts dynamic range and sensitivity

Posted on 14/06/2013 by Myriam Joire

We've all been enjoying the benefits of AMOLED displays for several years now -- high contrast ratios, wide viewing angles and vivid colors -- so it was only a matter of time until organic films ended up in image sensors. Fujifilm and Panasonic have been working on organic CMOS image sensors and just showed the results of their collaboration at the 2013 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Kyoto. By replacing the traditional silicon photodiode with an organic photoelectric conversion layer, researchers have created image sensors with a dynamic range of 88dB (the industry's highest), a 1.2-fold increase in sensitivity (compared to traditional designs) and a 60-degree range of incident light (vs. 30-40 degrees, typically). What does this mean in practice? Less clipping in bright scenes, better low-light performance and richer colors and textures. The companies plan to promote these new organic CMOS image sensors for use in a wide range of imaging applications, including next generation cameras and phones. We can't wait!

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Red claims Dragon is ‘single most significant sensor in the history of image capture’

Posted on 10/08/2012 by Steve Dent

Red Camera's bombastic CEO, Jim Jannard, says that internal testing of the new 6K Dragon sensor proves that it's the new "resolution and dynamic range king." He also claims it will be "the cleanest sensor you have ever seen, ISO 2000 looks better than MX [the current sensor] at ISO 800." The imaging chip was first outed at NAB in April, promising 15+ stops of DR and 120fps at a full 5K of resolution, with $6,000 upgrades for Epic customers by the end of the year. Owners of the $9,700 (brain only) Scarlet-X will also get the Dragon, though no price or date has been given yet for that camera. Needless to say, some independent testing will be needed to substantiate his claims, but Jannard sure does sound confident.

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The mysteries of the CCD revealed (video)

Posted on 16/05/2012 by Terrence O'Brien

Sure, we've explained to you why sensor size matters in a digital camera, but maybe you need to take it back a bit. Maybe, you're not entirely sure how those sensors work in the first place. Well, Bill Hammack, better known as The Engineer Guy, is here to help. After breaking down LCDs and hard drives for your amusement and education, Bill has turned his attention to the CCD. The charge-coupled device is the heart and soul of many a digital camera, turning incoming photons into a charge that the impressively complex processor inside can convert into an image. What makes the CCD so impressive is it's rather ingenious solutions to problems such as interference (no wires, just a shift register) and color reproduction (pixel-sized filters and a hue-flattening algorithm). For more, check out the video after the break.

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Sharp readying 1/2.3-inch, 20.2-megapixel CCD destined for noisy point-and-shoots

Posted on 17/04/2012 by Terrence O'Brien

As you probably know, megapixels aren't everything. In fact, the more of them you cram into a smaller space, the noisier your images will be. So, you'll forgive us if we don't exactly shout from the mountain tops that Sharp has managed to stick a whopping 20.2 megapixels into a CCD only 1/2.3 inches in size. That does, however, give the RJ23G3BA0LT the highest pixel count in that size range. That's gotta count for something, right?

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RED Dragon 6K sensor upgrade eyes-on (video)

Posted on 16/04/2012 by Zach Honig

"Obsolescence Obsolete" -- that's RED's tagline for the just-announced Dragon sensor upgrade, which is set to bring 6K resolution to EPIC and Scarlet cameras beginning later this year. The sensor module was on display at the company's NAB booth today, under a backlit case that could only have been designed to make photographing the new chip a near-impossible task. We did manage to snag a few frames of the device, which appears as a mere silhouette to the naked eye. Sensors aren't designed for us to look at, however -- they're supposed to do the looking -- so we won't get any more hung up on the presentation. Existing RED camera owners can look forward to an incredibly impressive 15+ stops of native dynamic range and up to 120 frames-per-second at resolutions up to 5K. And as we discovered earlier today, the upgrade will roll out to EPIC owners sometime in 2012 for $6,000 while Scarlet users will need to hang tight for a release date, and a price tag. That's all we've got as far as details go, so click on through the gallery below for a flashlight-enhanced peek at the Dragon.

Gallery: RED Dragon 6K sensor upgrade hands-on