Eastman Kodak Co. revealed new technology that will make photography in low light crisp and clear.
Did they finally make a revolutionary sensor? Nope! Instead, company’s image sensor business focused on improving the filter placed on top of the sensor.
Think of the sensor as your eye. It captures the image and sends it for processing to the ‘brain’ (a computer chip).
The new filter increases sensitivity to light sending more of it to the sensor. This means the use of flash may not be needed in dark situations. Furthermore, the more light, the shorter the shutter has to stay open for the image to be captured. This means your images will be less blurry and more crisp.
Coming soon to the photos near you
Thankfully, Kodak will share this technology with other camera manufacturers in early 2008 and hopefully we will see cameras youtilizing the new filter on shelves later that year.
This technology is expected to have the biggest effect on camera phones and better mobile pics can brighten up anyone’s day.
Joel Courtney
over 2 years ago
Interesting – wonder how they're doing this. Obviously the additional photons need to come from somewhere, so perhaps they're trying to get a very low reflectivity surface on the front of the sensor?
Aaaah – nope – just read it. Seems more like a stacked cell – something that has been out for a while now (and in use in commercial cameras) so I am wondering what addition this has to the existing methodology of stacked sensors.