All the stories tagged with camera sensor

Sony Handycam Lineup New Features

01/09/2012, [CES 2012] Sony unveiled its new Handycam camcorder lineup at CES during its press conference. The Japanese manufacturer came up with some significant improvements on the image side, including an Extended Zoom, a 4X higher megapixels post- processing for still [...]

iPhone 5 with Sony camera sensor? [Sony CEO leak?]

04/02/2011, During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sir Howard Stringer (Sony’s CEO), mentioned that the tsunami would delay the shipment of Sony’s best camera sensors to Apple. The thing is, Sony isn’t known to supply sensors to Apple for [...]

Phones with 16-megapixel cameras on the way

01/10/2011, It seems that there is no end to the obsession with megapixels when it comes to digital devices and now Japanese chip maker Renesas is promising 16-megapixel sensors for future phones. The company claims its latest image-processing system chip, the [...]

Sony Buys Back CMOS Chip Plant, Hopes to Put Camera Sensors Into More Phones

12/22/2010, Sony is looking to acquire back its semiconductor chip plant that it had sold to Toshiba in 2008. The acquisition will be valued at just shy of $600 million, and would help Sony better compete in producing better sensors for [...]

Canon Previews A 120-megapixel Camera Sensor

08/24/2010, Canon has given us a little glimpse into the future of digital cameras with the world’s largest camera sensor, a 120-megapixel APS-H sized CMOS sensor that is about 7.5 times larger than the sensor in the EOS 1D Mark IV. [...]