megapixel

News.blog: Photosynth goes public

News While Microsoft has largely pushed it as a way to build jaw-dropping 3D-like environments, I'd argue to say it's a far simpler way to take super detailed shots of a wall or single room without breaking the bank on a high-megapixel SLR.

Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections

21 August 2008, 10:16

PC World stocking Atom mini laptop

News It has 1GB of RAM, a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's

Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing

8 July 2008, 9:50

Photos: US mobiles show off at CTIA

News Professional Edition, HTC's TouchFLO interface, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2-megapixel camera. The semiannual CTIA trade show gives mobile companies the chance to show off their newest wireless wares. Here's a collection of some of the highlights from the...

Tags: credit, nokia, windows mobile, iphone

3 April 2008, 11:06

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News Kodak hopes turning one aspect of chip design on its head will help improve mobile phone cameras -- or at least help the image quality catch up with the megapixel increases. Nokia's N95, but Kodak believes its technology, built into a megapixel...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: Disassembling a digital camera

News Learn how a digital camera is put together in these photos of a disassembled ViviCam, a common 3.3-megapixel model Digital cameras are everywhere, but what makes them work? This camera has a pretty simple set of user controls.

Tags: credit, battery, cable, lens

2 November 2007, 9:37

Photos: SpongeBob dives into digital

News The 3-megapixel SpongeBob digital camera, which costs $79 (£40), comes with character overlays that let people pose with SpongeBob and his pals as a photo is shot. The SpongeBob SquarePants 15-inch LCD TV hooks into computers, DVD players, gaming...

19 September 2007, 10:19

News.blog: Kodak sells its first CMOS camera sensor

News Selling the CMOS sensor -- a 5-megapixel model the company promised earlier this year -- is a milestone indicating Kodak has attained a certain level of expertise. Kodak has just sold its first CMOS image sensor for digital cameras.

24 July 2007, 10:38

News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News The presentation includes numerous details about the camera -- including its 10-megapixel sensor, improved viewfinder, sealing against dust and wet weather, wireless flash controller and better autofocus.

13 July 2007, 9:44

Photos: Cracking open the iPhone

News After completely removing the back case panel, I removed the iPhone's 2-megapixel camera from the main PCBs. The iPhone blends a revolutionary touchscreen interface, media player and smart phone into a slick package.

9 July 2007, 11:47

Putting hi-def video on your phone

News That can be divided up into one 12-megapixel shot, or four 3-megapixel shots taken in burst mode. Apple will release one of the most highly touted phones in history this week. But by next year, those first iPhones could be woefully outdated.

26 June 2007, 10:17

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News So a 12-megapixel sensor would have 6 million panchromatic pixels, 3 million green pixels, 1.5 million red pixels and 1.5 million blue pixels. Light sensitivity has become a serious problem in digital cameras, particularly as higher megapixel...

14 June 2007, 10:28

Photos: Three new Nokia phones

News Nokia targets the high end of the market with the 8600, a steel-and-glass 3G phone with a 2-megapixel camera. The Nokia 6500 Slide features a 3.2-megapixel camera and stainless steel body. One of Nokia's thinnest phones to date, the 6500 Classic is...

Tags: nokia, camera, megapixel, classic

1 June 2007, 11:06

Motion-sensing comes to mobiles

News Invensense is already supplying digital-camera companies with its tiny, MEM-based gyroscopes to help stabilise cameras and improve picture quality, especially on higher-megapixel cameras. Responding to a flick of the wrist or sweep of the arm, tiny...

26 March 2007, 12:05

Panasonic developing lower-end dSLR

News The 7.5-megapixel, £1,200 camera also has a flat top because Panasonic skipped the traditional bulging pentaprism in favour of internal mirrors to direct light to the viewfinder. Beefing up its attempt to penetrate a high-growth segment of the...

12 March 2007, 10:36

Micron announces 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor

News Micron Technology, a leading proponent of camera image sensors built using the same CMOS manufacturing technology used to make most computer processors, has begun selling a new 8-megapixel model. In addition, it announced two other CMOS...

12 March 2007, 10:12