Questions tagged “camera sensors”

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How can different sensor spectral-response units be related to quantum efficiency (QE)?

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LimeAndConconut

1y ago

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Why can an external light meter work without knowing my camera sensor’s sensitivity?

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4y ago

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Can a camera sensor ever record a pure RGB value like 0,255,0?

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4y ago

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Is the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera any good for astrophotography?

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6y ago

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How does a camera sensor measure light—does each photosite count photons?

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7y ago

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Do phones with the same camera sensor produce the same image quality?

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7y ago

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What’s the difference between an infrared filter and an ND filter for photography?

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Photography Stack Exchange contributor

7y ago

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How can you detect potentially sensor-damaging IR/LiDAR lasers before photographing a scene?

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7y ago

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Why don’t camera makers use circular sensors to capture the lens’s full image circle?

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Photography Stack Exchange contributor

7y ago

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Is a Raspberry Pi camera viable for long-term night monitoring of building brightness?

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8y ago

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Can I retrofit a gel documentation system with a smaller-sensor camera and keep the same field of view?

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8y ago

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Would a phone camera with separate RGB sensors improve image quality over a Bayer sensor?

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8y ago

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Why does my camera show a red glow from another camera’s eye-start sensor that I can’t see?

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8y ago

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Can any camera capture UV, visible, and near-infrared in a single shot?

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9y ago

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Why does a partial solar eclipse show up only as a lens artifact on my phone camera?

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9y ago

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How can I tell whether a camera applies processing to RAW files?

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9y ago

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How can I stop a laser trigger beam from appearing in photos?

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9y ago

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Why are digital images represented in RGB instead of wavelength values?

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user63664

9y ago

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How was the high-resolution SWIR portrait on Wikipedia captured?

camera-sensors wavelengths swir infrared specialty-cameras

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9y ago

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How can I determine a camera's native or base ISO?

camera-sensors iso dynamic-range image-quality exposure

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9y ago

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