The megapixel myth has treated camera manufacturers well over the years, those ever increasing, and often meaningless, numbers have sold millions of cameras. But consumers are getting wise to it.

With everyone demanding the best camera phone, image quality has become the latest smartphone arms race. And the camera sensor is where manufacturers are duking it out. While large megapixel counts ...

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 – ...

This newly updated, and highly useful chart, illustrates all major camera sensors side-by-side. Phil Holland has just updated his extremely popular sensor chart to include the latest cameras. This isn ...

When you “snap” a photo with a point-and-shoot camera or a cell phone, you hope to obtain a blemish-free image. The makers of CMOS image sensors used in these and other electronic products have a ...

[Update – The Galaxy S5 contains Samsung’s revolutionary new ISOCELL technology. Check it out below, and more on this to come soon!] Megapixels make for an easy number to compare, which is why so many ...

The part 4 of this article series looked at the operation of the 3T and 5T charge-transfer pixels in some detail. The characteristics of the pixel were examined during reset and charge integration. We ...

Apple is moving forward with plans to bring a new type of image sensor with dynamic range levels approaching that of the human eye to future iPhones, according to a Weibo leaker. Last month, Apple ...

NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) is conducting research on thin, bendable silicon image sensors, with the aim of creating small, blur-free broadcast cameras with a wide field of ...