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 ...

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.

We explain the camera sensor technology used in todays digital cameras and smartphones, from CCD sensors to CMOS sensors, BSI, or Back Side Illumination, what does it all mean? Find out here.

What does matter is sensor size! Why is camera image sensor size important? The size of sensor that a camera has ultimately determines how much light it uses to create an image.

In today's digital SLR camera, the image sensor is what film was to a 35mm SLR camera. It isn't a setting you can control in your camera's menu, yet a specification you may wish to purchase.

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

Digital camera and smartphone marketing often highlights the number of pixels on the camera sensor on the basis that big numbers are good, and huge numbers are even better. The resolving power of ...

The craze for dual camera smartphones has been on the rise since Apple’s bigger iPhone 7 Plus flaunted the dual camera sensor on its back in 2016. Several mid-range smartphones have started ...

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 ...