Category: camera sensor

Sony may keep best sensors in house and not sell them to other companies

Dunja Djudjic

A recent interview with Sony managers discovered that Sony might keep most of their sensors in their own cameras. Mr. Kenji Tanaka and Mr. Yojiro Joe Asai from Sony shared some plans of the company, and among other things, they discovered the future of their sensors. The interview was originally published on Imaging Resource, but […]

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Which Camera is the Noisiest? This visual database compares sensor noise

Udi Tirosh

The quality of long exposures is determined mostly by the amount of noise a camera produces. The lower the noise levels, the better the exposure. This is especially true if you are shooting lots of nightscapes or night skies, where most of the photo is black. And Brendan Davey shoots a lot of night photos, in fact he shoots […]

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A Geeky Crash Course On The Science of Camera Sensors

Udi Tirosh

//geek alert Often when we talk about camera sensors we talk about “buckets” collecting “photons of light”. But talking about buckets is looking at the sensor mechanism from a bird’s eye view. If you want a deeper understanding of how camera sensors work, Filmmaker IQ is giving a terrific lecture that goes down all the way […]

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Sony Shares Previews of Global Shutter on CMOS Sensors and Super Low Light Technology

Udi Tirosh

Sony, is not waiting to see who will win the sensor wars, it is defining the battlefield. With rumors of new technologies being around for a while now, Sony recently released two videos showing what’s in store for their future line of sensor technology. Specifically, Sony demoed Starvis – an ultra low light technology designed for […]

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Sony Shares Previews of Global Shutter on CMOS Sensors and Super Low Light Technology

Udi Tirosh

Sony, is not waiting to see who will win the sensor wars, it is defining the battlefield. With rumors of new technologies being around for a while now, Sony recently released two videos showing what’s in store for their future line of sensor technology. Specifically, Sony demoed Starvis – an ultra low light technology designed for […]

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