Life is full of foolish myths, ideas that are planted in our brains by rumor, gossip, or misperception, and seem to endure. One of those myths in photography is that sensor size affects depth of field ...

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 ...

Sensor size and focal length The size of the sensor inside a camera has a direct effect on what kind of lenses can be used with that camera. If you buy a compact camera the lens is built into the body ...

If you've ever wondered what size a single pixel on a digital camera is, or how different sensor sizes effect image quality, then this article is for you. For a more basic introduction into what a ...

Sensor Size Noise Results The sensor in a digital camera is the electronic version of film, and records light to create a digital image. The size of the sensor determines how much light can be ...

Manufacturers of compact digital cameras have long used a rather ambiguous way to define the sizes of the sensors in their products. The system used dates back to video camera tubes used in the 1950s, ...

You all know that the size of a camera's sensor changes the effective focal length of a lens, right? But what about its effect on depth-of-field? We know that cameras with smaller sensors we get more ...

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 – ...

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’s latest 200-Mpixel image sensor, the ISOCELL HP3, touts a pixel size of 0.56 µm, 12% smaller than its predecessor. At 56 µm, Samsung believes the sensor has the industry’s smallest pixels, ...