For most of the past 150 years, amateur astrophotography has been for only those who had unlimited patience and deep pockets. Then, in 1969, two scientists, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith working ...

The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics went, in part, to the inventors of the charge-coupled device George Smith and Willard Boyle this week. Their innovation, sketched out in 1969, is now the imager in ...

The 24-year-old engineer who built the first digital camera that weighed eight pounds and ran on 16x AA batteries: ...

If you spend a lot of time reading about cameras, you’re probably familiar with the terms CMOS sensor and CCD sensor, as they describe the two most popular digital camera sensor types. You probably ...

The Celestron Nightscape CCD Camera is a oneshot color imaging device featuring a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor. The camera incorporates thermoelectric cooling and an adjustable fan for temperature ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

CMOS manufacturers debut a variety of chips that may change the 'guts' of surveillance While our industry has installed many a camera, often not much thought at the dealer level is given to the actual ...

The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the ...

Despite sounding like a futuristic device from a sci-fi flick, the Sony Handycam CCD-TRV65 could be modified to perform a ...

In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera.