A Bayer array, or Bayer filter, is what lets a digital camera take color photos. It’s an array of tiny color filters that sit on top of a camera’s CCD. The filter makes it so that each sub-pixel in ...

At the start of the century, it was unthinkable that people would walk around with a pocket-sized camera. But today, we take the ubiquity of photographic equipment for granted. Smartphone cameras have ...

Early astrophotography (before 1990s) relied heavily on film, producing images of lower quality by today's standards. The introduction of CCD cameras in the early 1990s significantly improved image ...