but even on high-end shooters like Canon's EOS Digital Rebel line. So, why are people suddenly gravitating back to older, less efficient, and slower CCD cameras? With the advent of the smartphone ...

Looking for an underwater camera setup, [Imsolidstate] picked up a Canon A70 and a Canon water-tight housing on eBay for around $45. Unfortunately the camera arrived with a non-functioning CCD.

At the other end of the scale there’s [Wenting Zhang]’s open source mirrorless digital camera project, in which the design and construction of a full-frame CCD digital camera has been taken ...

While the older, slower CCD is still in use, it’s typically at the lower, cheaper end of the digital ... to hear Canon, Nikon or Sony boasting about their latest CCD incorporating camera.