Digital imaging

Canon has wrapped its experimental ultra-high sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor up into a world-first commercial product. The new MS-500 accepts ultra-telephoto broadcast lenses, and can shoot color video on a moonless night.

Back at CES 2023, smart telescope maker Unistellar launched a new model that could digitally remove light pollution from cities to give users a clear view of the stars. Now the company has improved on the formula with its new Deep Dark Technology.

Inspired by the dual-focus visual system of a 500-million-year-old trilobite, researchers have created and tested a light field camera with the greatest depth of field ever demonstrated. Everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km from the lens stays sharp.

An electronics hacker known as befinitiv recently posted a YouTube video demonstrating how he converted an old Cosina Hi-Lite 35-mm film camera into a digital snapper, using 3D printing, a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Pi camera module.

Lens filters are an important tool for many DSLR photographers, but dealing with different diameter lenses, stepping-rings, square filter mounts and the rest can be frustrating and expensive. But now, an ingenious filter system for mirrorless camera adapter mounts, looks to shake things up.

A research collaboration between MIT and Google has taken the idea of computational photography to a new level by creating a system than can automatically retouch images in real-time before the shot has even been taken.

Art has always been fundamentally intertwined with technology. Our new series, Art in the age of ones and zeros, examines the impact of digital technologies on art and looks at how artists are creating entirely new forms of artwork using these modern electronic tools.

Unveiled at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Polaroid's newest camera, the Snap, revisits the company's roots by combining instant prints with modern digital technology.

In long-awaited news for Instagram devotees, the Polaroid Socialmatic is now available for preorder. The camera has the ability to capture and print photos much like an original Polaroid, but is equipped with Wi-Fi to enable sharing over the internet and social media sites.

Panoramic and 360 degree imaging capabilities have been available to photographers for years through DSLR manual mode captures and smartphone apps. The Panono throwable ball camera, armed with 36 tiny lenses, is capable of capturing a 72 megapixel spherical scene from an elevated position.

Nikon President Makoto Kimura has hinted the firm could release a "non-camera" product to address the issue of people increasingly using smartphones to shoot photographs.

Adobe has included lossy compression in the recently announced 1.4 specification for its Digital Negative (DNG) RAW file format.