New high-resolution GigE and USB camera models. Camera manufacturer IDS introduced two new high-resolution camera series with USB and GigE connections at VISION 2010. The new UI-2280 and UI-6280 ...

Alongside a slew of other unveilings this week, Canon has announced it’s created a CMOS sensor with a global shutter, a surprising development that could rid DSLRs of the dreaded “rolling shutter” ...

Point Grey, a designer and manufacturer of innovative, high-performance digital cameras, has added a 4.1-megapixel global shutter CCD to the Grasshopper3 family of high-quality, high-resolution USB ...

Right off the bat, we’ll say that this video showing a laser beam stopping in mid-air is nothing but a camera trick. But it’s the trick that’s the hack, and you’ve got to admit that it looks really ...

The bewildering array of products on the market and reams of associated technical jargon can make choosing the right CCD camera a daunting task, especially if you're unfamiliar with the technology. In ...

Some image sensors must either use a mechanical shutter or a pulsed light source to capture an image. For example, full-frame CCD image sensors, that are used for scientific applications such as ...

The GE680 CCD camera captures 200 frames/s at VGA resolution and up to 1500 frames/s for a 25×25 region-of-interest. It includes a Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interface and is suitable for a variety of ...

Earlier this year, Panasonic unveiled a so-called organic sensor that would give cameras better dynamic range and low-light sensitivity. Now, it has unveiled a camera to go with it, the AK-SHB810, ...

A rolling shutter on a camera exposes an image by scanning one section at a time instead of capturing a scene all at once. Mechanical focal plane shutters, at the fastest shutter speeds, will scan an ...