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 ...

If you’re shopping for a digital camera, sensor size is one of the first things you’ll hear about. Chances are you’ve seen terms like “crop sensor,” “full frame,” and “micro four-thirds” thrown around ...

The soul of a digital camera is its sensor—to determine image size, resolution, low-light performance, depth of field, dynamic range, lenses, and even the camera’s physical size, the sensor is key. An ...

In the past few years, smartphone manufacturers have started paying more attention to the optics they use on their smartphone, using wider apertures for better low light performance. That’s awesome, ...

Sony on Tuesday joined the small group of OEMs offering smartphones with 1-inch camera sensors. Bolstered by this sensor, the company talks up the Xperia Pro-I‘s imaging credentials, its usefulness ...

Samsung is pushing the limits again on pixel sizes with its latest smartphone camera sensor. The ISOCELL JN1 fits 50 megapixels into a tiny 1/2.76-inch format for a pixel size of just 0.64 micrometers ...

Sony's new Venice camera has recently pushed full frame sensors for filmmaking into the limelight. But while larger sensors do offer some compelling advantages in the right circumstances, just how big ...

Sony won’t introduce a 1-inch camera sensor to beat out Samsung on sensor-size for 2021 as previously expected. As noted by prominent tipster Ice Universe on Twitter, the Samsung sensor will arrive by ...

For an update on the impact of large-sensor cameras, particularly Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II, on indie feature filmmaking, along with a discussion of Super 35 and “full frame” sensor sizes, see my ...

Humans are obsessed with miniaturization. We like to make everything smaller. And there’s a reason for that. It makes things lighter, easier to carry, and perhaps most importantly, it makes things ...

Is there too much focus on sensor size, when none of them, whatever the dimensions or pixel count, will make you a better photographer? Gavin Stoker believes so. The post Forget sensor size, this is ...

If you’re in the market for an interchangeable lens camera, you’ve probably heard the term “crop factor” thrown about in reference to different formats. Basically, crop factor refers to how the ...