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 ...
Twas a time, possibly before some of you reading this were born, when astroimaging was an ordeal. Imagine a world with manual guiding. You’d spend hours staring at a star centered in an illuminated ...
Driver assistance systems are one of the highest-growth segments in vehicle electronics. The market analysts of Mercer Management Consulting put the annual growth in turnover at around fourteen per ...
Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering – the "Nobel Prize of Engineering" – and I don’t think anybody within the photography community could rebuke ...
TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Photometrics®, a manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras for life science applications, and Gpixel Inc., a company specializing in high-performance CMOS ...
A new Stacked CMOS sensor makes 40fps autofocus and 6K video possible. New lenses were also tipped at the company's X Summit virtual event. Images, and the devices that capture them, are my focus.
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 ...
The internet is full of people trying to find the “holy grail” of a digital camera that gives you “film like” images – but were film photos really that good? Short answer: no, not in all the ways that ...
Today’s broadcasters are confronting challenges that arguably are the most daunting they have ever faced. On the one hand, tight budgets and shrinking resources are forcing deepening cutbacks. Above: ...
The resolution of cameras based on cost-effective CMOS image sensors has continued to improve. Newer sensor technology has led to better light-sensitivity levels and has helped reduce noise levels in ...
Terahertz (THz) radiation is electromagnetic radiation ranging from frequencies of 0.1 THz to 10 THz, with wavelengths between 30μm and 3mm. Reliably detecting this radiation could have numerous ...