Even though SLR cameras adopted digital image sensors as far back as the 1980s, other key components have remained defiantly mechanical. Mirrorless cameras removed the mirror and optical viewfinder ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A couple of days ago I wrote about the mystery of why my camera refuses to let me set ...

Thanks to the popularity of mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (MILC) such as the Panasonic GH4 and Sony α7, the electronic shutter has gained market share in shooting higher quality digital ...

Unless you’ve been living under a lens cap, you’ll know that the Big N has launched the Nikon Z8. But beyond that juicy 45.7MP stacked CMOS sensor, the latest Expeed imaging processor and cutting-edge ...

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 ...

Forward-looking: The new Alpha 9 III is a full-frame digital camera packing a stacked 24.6 megapixel CMOS sensor and Sony's BIONZ XR image processor. It boasts a maximum shutter speed of 1/80,000 ...