Syngene, a subsidiary of Synoptics Ltd., is a prominent supplier of cutting-edge imaging solutions for life science studies. It focuses on imaging systems for capturing and analyzing images of blots, ...

Charged-coupled devices were the first solid-state image sensors. CCDs offer superior picture resolution, but because they require more power, they are generally more expensive to create than CMOS ...

The internet is full of people trying to find the “holy grail” of a digital camera that gives you “film like” images – but were film photos really that good? Short answer: no, not in all the ways that ...

Many industry sources suggest that there may be a fundamental shift approaching for digital image sensors. Technology advances may soon allow the image quality available from CMOS image sensors to ...

While our industry has installed many a camera, often not much thought at the dealer level is given to the actual guts of the camera. The focus is always on whether the camera can give you the images ...

Why would you use CCD when CMOS is newer and cheaper? It used to be film that determined the look of a camera. Change the film - or the way it was processed - and the look would be different. But now ...

For 20 years, I have been using charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras, and I currently own the top-of-the-line SBIG STX-16803. But while studying two images I recently made using the latest QHY 410C ...

True camera weenies love to debate the merits of CMOS vs. CCD image sensors (and don't get even get them started on Foveon), so we await a whole new round of arguing with Kodak's entry into CMOS camp.

A CMOS-based chip that records the intensities of light as variable charges similar to a CCD chip. Although initially used in less expensive digital cameras, the quality of CMOS sensors has improved ...

Way back in 2008, Canon — the stalwart Japanese camera brand — released its EOS 5D Mark II model, which heralded a new era of digital photography. It was one of the first DSLR (which stands for ...

CCD (couple-charged device) cameras are a type of image capture device that utilize an image sensor to register visible light as an electronic signal. These types of cameras do not use photochemical ...

CMOS sensors are to be the focus of a $451m factory planned in Japan by cameramaker Canon, doubling its capacity. The plant will open July 2008 and will be the twin to their existing location in ...