Gavin Stoker wonders why everyone loves CCD cameras so much? Is he missing something? The post Why does everyone love CCD ...

The reality is that CCD sensors have all but disappeared from mainstream digital cameras. They are power-hungry, expensive to manufacture, and lack the speed that modern photographers demand.

After putting in a new monochrome CCD, [Lasse] had a much more sensitive sensor in his camera, and processing the RAW files off the camera gives him a great improvement for his astrophotography.

So in a display there are red, green, and blue sub-pixels, though in a CCD or even CMOS imaging sensors, the Bayer filter filters the light for the whole pixel. Those sensors don’t have sub-pixels.

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 ...

Forty years after they first sketched out the idea for a digital image sensor, two former Bell Labs research scientists have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 "for the invention ...