For new and aspiring photographers, resolution is simultaneously the most easily understood and most misunderstood aspect of a camera. Most people know that it has something to do with megapixels — a ...

Pixel binning, a decades-old image processing technique used extensively in astronomy, combines neighboring pixel data to increase light sensitivity at the cost of resolution. This is analogous to ...

If you’re shopping for a digital camera, sensor size is one of the first things you’ll hear about. Chances are you’ve seen terms like “crop sensor,” “full frame,” and “micro four-thirds” thrown around ...

Polarizing filters have long been used as a tool to reduce glare, minimize reflections, and improve the color of the sky in photographs by absorbing certain wavelengths of light before they hit the ...

Apple continues to win patents detailing advanced technology rumored to show up in next year's iPhone model, the most recent being a pair of inventions dealing with "super resolution" multi-sensor ...

Startup Foveon has designed an image sensor for digital cameras that does away with the color filters normally needed by CMOS and CCD sensors. The sensor has three photosensitive layers embedded in ...