Image Sensors World
image-sensors-world.blogspot.com · Group blog · on HN since 2015
Image Sensors World covers news on image sensors, lidar, depth sensing and camera chips, including industry and fab announcements.
What HN saysCommenters call it a great niche technical blog and cite it for sensor news, such as lidar damaging cameras and cinema camera sensors.
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- 1Ouster Discusses its LiDAR Principles2 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 21550nm lidar damages sony camera at ces2 people · first shared 2024
- 3Homepage2 people · first shared 2016
- 4TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders1 people · 103 points · first shared 2020 · 62 comments on HN
- 5Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to an extinct marine arthropod1 people · 84 points · first shared 2022 · 14 comments on HN
- 6First commercial curved CMOS sensor from startup CURVE1 people · 50 points · first shared 2020 · 36 comments on HN
- 7ST Unveils First iToF Depth Sensor with 0.5Mpixel Resolution1 people · 11 points · first shared 2022 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Mojo Vision's Augmented-Reality Smart Contact Lens1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 9Image Sensors on NASA Perseverance Rover1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 103D Depth Sensing Tutorials1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 11Light.co Switches from Consumer to Automobile1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 12Optical AI engine on top of a regular CMOS image sensor1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13Facebook's low power image sensor tutorial1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 14Rudolf Schwarte, Father of Photonic Mixer Device, Died at the Age of 821 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 15Comparing the Apple iPad and Ouster Lidar Sensors1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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highd · 2016-07-16
I love detailed, niche technical blogs like this. Another one I really like is Image Sensors World: https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/
flyinglizard · 2017-12-24
I think they rely heavily on customized Fairchild sensors for their Ursa line: http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2015/04/blackmagic-super-35-se…
(great blog BTW!)
I'm not aware of any pro cinema camera using the CMV12000 as-is, but I've been out of the loop for some time.
dharma1 · 2015-08-13
Read about something like this on http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.co.uk a while ago - instead of saturating the CMOS when max brightness is exceeded, it just keeps going.
Looking forward to seeing this commercialised.
etrautmann · 2018-10-16
tkfoss · 2025-12-03
I'm not surprised at all. This is not new - Jan 2019 https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2019/01/1550nm-lidar-damages-…
Just look at the comments of article you posted, with sock puppet accounts being actively hostile towards anyone asking questions.
hnisoss · 2024-11-26
1550nm LiDAR Damaged Sony Camera at CES - http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2019/01/1550nm-lidar-damages-s…
phonon · 2020-08-31
http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2019/09/red-camera-sensor-cons…
TLDW, Forza Silicon. ( https://www.forzasilicon.com/) now owned by https://www.ametek.com/
May not be true for all of Red's sensors. Other hardware is made by https://www.sanmina.com/
satya71 · 2019-12-30
That's not entirely true. BSI always had some metallization on the backside for aperture, power and packaging. For example, see this: https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2018/03/techinsights-publishe…
Perhaps what they're proposing is more sophisticated, but definitely not something entirely new.
dllu · 2018-11-13
> light on real details
If you want more details, Image Sensors World [1] has coverage with more details and links to two patents.
> It's unclear if this product works in the time-domain
It is a pulsed time of flight direct detection lidar, not a modulated continuous wave lidar.
[1] http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2018/11/ouster-discusses-its-l…
caisley · 2026-01-25
Modern commercial image sensors are made in process nodes down to 28nm [0], and for visible light have pixels measuring 0.7-1.5 μm. At [0] there a diagram which gives a feel for what technology nodes are available and used for different applications. For example, RF ICs and power management ICs also typically use larger process nodes, and not just for reasons of cost. In fact a larger node, doesn't necessarily even mean older. For example, many technologies allowing better power handling capabilities in integrated circuits have come exclusively to larger nodes.
Regarding node sizes for image sensors, TSMC built a 28nm fab recently for Sony exclusively to make their latest sensors. There was actually a HN post about that a couple years ago [1]. Also, it's important to note that in many applications, the image sensor layer is now actually stacked, with a layer of DRAM (in 45 nm, for example) between, and a ISP (image signal processor) chip on the bottom made in a smaller digital process. You can see an image of that stack up here [2].
[0] https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2020/08/tsmc-reports-developi…
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24321804
[2] https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/763/iedm-2017-sonys-3-layer-stacked-cmo…