Choosing the right charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor is an important decision. While some features of a given sensor may make it optimal for use in one application, this same sensor may be less ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

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 ...

PARIS — Sony Corp. is recalling eight models of its Cyber-shot digital still cameras because of a packaging-related defect in the units' captively manufactured CCD image sensors. Further, an earlier ...

World’s First 50 Megapixel CCD Sensor Sets New Standard for Professional Photographers ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 8 – Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) has achieved another breakthrough in its storied ...

The Celestron Nightscape CCD Camera is a oneshot color imaging device featuring a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor. The camera incorporates thermoelectric cooling and an adjustable fan for temperature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...