If you’re shopping for a digital camera, sensor size is one of the first things you’ll hear about. Chances are you’ve seen terms like “crop sensor,” “full frame,” and “micro four-thirds” thrown around ...

Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers; DxO will add medium-format and lens tests later. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

CCD-versus-CMOS-sensor market success increasingly has less to do with the technologies' respective technical characteristics. Shrinking pixel dimensions result in sensors that are increasingly ...

Do you need to buy a full-frame camera in 2026, or is an APS-C good enough? A lot has happened recently – some new, higher-resolution APS-C cameras appear to close the gap between them and full-frame ...

It ain't over till it's over, but it looks like Canon's intermediate-size APS-H sensor line, found in 1D Mark III SLRs used by photojournalists, may be at the end of its life span. Stephen Shankland ...