Last year, Sony said that it had developed a new type of sensor that was capable of gathering double the light of conventional sensors while also reducing noise. That sensor has finally made it into a consumer product, and the company has further explained how it works.
Sony is set to provide Apple with a "state-of-the-art" image sensor for its next iPhone that will supposedly double the amount of light it can capture and give it the ability to clearly capture a face even with a strong backlight.
In December of 2021, Sony successfully developed the world’s first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with two-layer transistor pixels, doubling its light gathering capability. The company has now further detailed how this was achieved.
Sony's Semiconductor division has announced that it successfully developed the world's first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with two-layer transistor pixels that grants double the light gathering capability.
OnePlus has announced the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro smartphones which kick off its three-year camera co-development process with Hasselblad. The OnePlus 9 Pro features a more robust camera array featuring a standard, ultra-wide, and telephoto cameras.
OnePlus has announced that it has entered a three-year partnership with Hasselblad to "co-develop the next generation of smartphone camera systems" for OnePlus flagship devices. The first to benefit from this partnership, the OnePlus 9 Series, will launch on March 23.
Samsung has published a video that details how its Smart-ISO Pro technology works. The company explains that unlike how traditional ISO functions, its tech can capture two ISO ranges at the same time in the same photo to dramatically expand the dynamic range and color accuracy.
Sony is working hard to keep its image sensor supremacy. The company is planning to show off two new image sensors at the 2019 International Electronic Devices Meeting (IEDM) that should have photographers excited: a 3-layer organic image sensor that will require no demosaicing, and "the world’s first all PDAF CMOS image sensor."
Sony is pluming the depths of stacked sensor technology and uncovering all sorts of amazing gems—the a9's 20fps capabilities, the Xperia XZ's 960fps slow motion feature, and now, an industrial sensor that can recognize and track objects at an insane 1,000fps.
Curved sensor mania first took over the blogosphere back in 2014 thanks to Sony and their curved creation. But while that sensor never really came to anything worthwhile—although it was used in a "camera"—two Canon patents are sparking interest in this technology once again.
Sony's not messing around, the electronics company really does want to revolutionize digital photography. And while we still haven't seen the potential of the curved sensor technology Sony's been teasing us with for months, another Sony sensor patent is stirring up even more interest and excitement.
This one describes something called 'Active-Pixel Color Sampling' technology, or APCS (that's not gonna be confusing at all...), and it's poised to take frame-rates, dynamic range, and low-light capabilities to heights that could legitimately be called insane.
Sony today announced the new IMX224MQV 1/3-inch 1.27MP CMOS sensor, which is said to have the world’s highest level of sensitivity for any sensor in its class. But before you get excited about that night vision point-and-shoot you've been wanting, you should know something: it was designed specifically for use in automobile cameras.
A reliable source earlier today told Canon Rumors to expect some new sensor …
Since its spec sheet leaked on Monday, there's been plenty of buzz surrounding Pentax's newly-released K-3 APS-C DSLR. Many are particularly atwitter about the K-3's unique anti-aliasing system, which relies on a vibrating sensor to remove moire-effects. Because it's not filter-based, the effect can be turned off.
Therefore, the K-3 offers the moire-eliminating effect of an anti-aliasing filter when it's needed, and the greater sharpness of a filterless sensor when it's not. Not only do people care about this innovation, but for many it was a cardinal feature of the camera.
Although the pixel war probably isn't ending anytime soon, a new sensor technology from Samsung shows how yet another company is focusing on improving the tech instead of stacking the spec sheet.
We've seen amazing low-light sensors and dual-pixel AF tech from Canon, organic sensors with insane dynamic range from Fuji and Panasonic, and now new ISOCELL technology from Samsung, which promises substantial increases in color and light sensitivity.
The folks at Panasonic just developed an exciting new sensor technology that could significantly improve low light performance in all types of cameras very soon. Calling it a sensor technology is a bit misleading, however, because no improvements have been made to the actual sensor at all; instead, Panasonic has decided to change what sits in front of the sensor: the traditional color filter.
A new breed of image sensor is being created by researchers at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria that may some day revolutionize the way we take pictures. Unlike the typical image sensor we're used to seeing, this one is a thin, flexible, transparent sheet.
InVisage, a California-based start up company, has announced a new image sensor technology that it claims is up to four times more sensitive than traditional sensor technologies.
Their product, QuantumFilm, is a layer of semiconductor material added on top of the traditional silicon that uses quantum dots to gather light.