The megapixel myth has treated camera manufacturers well over the years, those ever increasing, and often meaningless, numbers have sold millions of cameras. But consumers are getting wise to it.

With everyone demanding the best camera phone, image quality has become the latest smartphone arms race. And the camera sensor is where manufacturers are duking it out. While large megapixel counts ...

A digital camera’s sensor size can go a long way in determining image quality in a camera. This graphic illustrates common sizes The typical point-and-shoot digital camera has a 5.76 by 4.29 mm sensor ...

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When buying a digital camera, there are many important specs to consider besides which color to pick. In years past, the way you’d approach this was to get the camera with the highest resolution – ...

This newly updated, and highly useful chart, illustrates all major camera sensors side-by-side. Phil Holland has just updated his extremely popular sensor chart to include the latest cameras. This isn ...

If you are looking for a new mobile phone it’s likely that a good camera will rank high on your list of must-have features. But how do you know if the camera on a phone is good or just ok? The way ...

Standalone cameras come in a huge range of types, which are often specific to certain uses: superzooms are great for photographing birds and airplanes, medium format provides the detail needed for ...

Samsung has announced a new image sensor for smartphone cameras that it says has the smallest pixels in the industry. The ISOCELL JN1 is a 50-megapixel sensor with a relatively tiny 1/2.76-inch format ...