A CCD sensor, on the other hand, is global, meaning the entire array captures light at once, then takes a period of time to reset. While this isn't ideal for modern videography, it has advantages ...

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.

A type of CCD sensor from Fujifilm that is used in its digital cameras. Super CCD uses a honeycomb structure of octagon-shaped light sensors (photodiodes) at 45 degree angles rather than 90 ...

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 ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

After two decades use, we are all familiar with basic CCD technology. During this period, the most recent development has been CCD sensors that support HD. CMOS sensors, like CCDs, are made from ...

A Bayer array, or Bayer filter, is what lets a digital camera take color photos. It’s an array of tiny color filters that sit on top of a camera’s CCD. The filter makes it so that each … ...

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.

The linked article has some good analysis as to why exactly we're seeing this "progress" in resolution, along with this little tidbit: Sharp's new CCD has 38 square millimeters for sensors, while ...