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Photo: Pascal Le Segretain / Staff / Getty Images News via Getty Images George E. Smith, one of the co-inventors of the CCD sensor, passed away on May 28th at his home in Waretown, New Jersey. The ...
A CCD sensor, on the other hand, is global, meaning the entire array captures light at once, then takes a period of time to reset. While this isn't ideal for modern videography, ...
A type of CCD sensor from Fujifilm that is used in its digital cameras. Super CCD uses a honeycomb structure of octagon-shaped light sensors (photodiodes) at 45 degree angles rather than 90 ...
CCD is Charge Coupled Device and CMOS is Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Exciting stuff, right? But, knowing how they actually work is a different story. Below are two videos that were ...
A Bayer array, or Bayer filter, is what lets a digital camera take color photos. It’s an array of tiny color filters that sit on top of a camera’s CCD. The filter makes it so that each … ...
The level of consumer misinformation in the megapixel realm is pretty ridiculous already, there's just very little reason for using an 8 megapixel CCD to capture the level of image data coming ...
Opticstar’s DS-616C XL CCD camera has a 6-megapixel 1.8-inch Sony CCD sensor. The unit offers 50 percent higher sensitivity than other cameras using the same chip because of its hardware and ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) is again supplying the CCD Image Sensors that lie at the heart of the latest digital camera from Leica Camera AG.The KODAK KAF ...
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded, with the inventors of the CCD getting recognition for the invention which enabled modern digital photography. It has taken a while: Whilst ...