Ever wondered how the CMOS and CCD image sensors inside cameras work? Well, these neat animations byRaymond Sirí do a great job of explaining it. The animations show the basics of how the two sensor ...

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 ...

At the start of the century, it was unthinkable that people would walk around with a pocket-sized camera. But today, we take ...

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 the ...