Charged-coupled devices were the first solid-state image sensors. CCDs offer superior picture resolution, but because they require more power, they are generally more expensive to create than CMOS ...

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.

While our industry has installed many a camera, often not much thought at the dealer level is given to the actual guts of the camera. The focus is always on whether the camera can give you the images ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMOS imaging chips have been steadily improving, their cost and performance being driven by the highly competitive smartphone industry. As CMOS sensors get better and cheaper, they get more ...

For 20 years, I have been using charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras, and I currently own the top-of-the-line SBIG STX-16803. But while studying two images I recently made using the latest QHY 410C ...

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.

A CMOS-based chip that records the intensities of light as variable charges similar to a CCD chip. Although initially used in less expensive digital cameras, the quality of CMOS sensors has improved ...

I'm seeing more HD camcorders being released with a 3-CMOS chip design rather than a 3CCD chip design. Any idea why this might be? I heard CMOS chips reduce vertical smearing. CCD chips should have ...

CMOS sensors are to be the focus of a $451m factory planned in Japan by cameramaker Canon, doubling its capacity. The plant will open July 2008 and will be the twin to their existing location in ...