New technology in digital camera sensitivity

The new technology from Kodak, to be unveiled Thursday and used in products in 2008, increases light sensitivity of existing image sensors by a factor of two to four. Translated into photography terms, that means a camera’s shutter speed could be cut in half or a quarter, helping cut camera shake or motion blur problems. Alternatively, it could let photographers shoot in low light with less image “noise”–the pesky multicolor speckles that degrade photographs. And unlike some efforts to improve digital cameras, the new Kodak technique can be applied to any existing image sensor, leading Kodak to hope it will be able to license the high-sensitivity technology far and wide.

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