You use them on holiday, at concerts, or just for a plain old selfie, but how exactly does your camera work? James May explains all.

But vintage cameras are making an inexplicable comeback among young people. Old digital cameras are a TikTok craze, and those participating in it are gravitating toward CCD sensors in particular.

How Your Digital Camera Sensor Works A digital camera’s sensor collects light and converts that light into an image. It’s a small square positioned inside the camera body behind where the lens ...

Professor Danielle George explains how a digital camera’s CMOS sensor captures an image, using balls and buckets to represent photons, electrons and capacitors.

The soul of a digital camera is its sensor—to determine image size, resolution, low-light performance, depth of field, dynamic range, lenses, and even the camera’s physical size, the sensor is ...

Benefits of Pixel Binning Pixel Binning alleviates one big problem that plagues almost every smartphone camera; low light photography. When shooting in low light, the sensor sensitivity has to be ...

The size of sensor has an impact too. Smaller cameras, like those in phones and point-and-shoot cameras, come with smaller sensors, usually around 6 mm, which results in poor low-light performance.

This DIY sensor has a matrix of 32 x 32 photo cells, just over 1,000 pixels. Sean Hodgins Hodgins recently created a working 1-kilopixel sensor and stuck it inside a 3D printed camera body. Although ...

Christopher Breen has a dirty little secret -- the sensor on his digital SLR is smudged with gunk. But with the help of experts, the right tools, and a little patience, he was able to remove the ...