Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Digital Camera Sensors

You do n’t need to know enough about it to build one yourself , but a little knowledge of how digital cameras actually work can help meliorate your picture taking game . So if you ’ve got an extra 13 minute at your electric pig today , learn thiswonderful explainer of how a camera ’s sensorworks .

The TV , host by John Hess ofFilmmaker IQ , set about off with a crash row on how traditional photographic pic used to work . But it also covers how an electronic sensor is able to convert captured visible radiation into a digital image , the differences between CCD and CMOS sensor , and the pros and con — both technically and artistically — to each engineering approaching .

There wo n’t be a test afterwards , but you ’ll emphatically be more television camera savvy .