That's cool. No need for flash anymore? Only if you can adjust the sensor, sometimes you really want the flash.

That's cool. No need for flash anymore? Only if you can adjust the sensor, sometimes you really want the flash.

Originally shared by William L. Weaver

Graphene Used to Make Camera Sensors 1000x More Sensitive

Technology Rocks!

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Jason ON said…
3200 isnt that good for everyone. I shot a wedding where we weren't
allowed to use flash (facility rule) and had to shoot ay 3200+. All the
inages turned out grainy.
The article is pretty standard nonsensical hype you see in press releases from science institutes. It is not really possible for a new material to be 1000 more sensitive than conventional systems as current camera sensors already have a quantum efficiency close to 100%. This goes down to like 25% if you take the Bayer filter into account. Still no room for 1000 times improvement! Secondly, in current generation camera sensors noise is pretty much limited by photon statistics. You cannot change that and beat that with ANY material. Lastly note that the guy is holding a transparent piece of material. An actually efficient sensor will look black because no light will escape from it. A transparent sensor simply means a very inefficient sensor! My guess is that the actual science got completely distorted by some press release writer and the innovation (if any) is not really what it is hyped up to be but something far more subtle. A major clue to this being very questionable is that neither the mashable article nor the technews article that it came from links to an actual peer-reviewed paper. Until that appears one should be extremely skeptical.
Rich Leighton said…
Eliminate the need for flash? No more need for creative lighting? Why the hell did I spend all this money on studio lighting then?  Hmmmm.....
Rich LaDuca said…
That's the down-side that these kinds of innovations introduce...

Many of the tools that make photography into an art, are being replaced by automated processes.

Pretty soon the only true art will be seen at the hands of hordes of anon doing gang-land style comment board trolling...

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