How does a camera work?

Cameras are everywhere! There are probably 2 or even 3 cameras in your pocket right now. But how do they work? How can they take some of the most amazing pictures ever?

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Table of Contents:
0:20 Section 1: Intro
1:10 Section 2: System Layout
3:51 Section 3: Analogy between a Smartphone & a Human
7:45 Section 4: Camera and Sensor Details
11:30 Section 5: Questions & Thought Experiment

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Erratum:
0:52 Smartphone is misspelled as Smarphone
9:54 Audio says 4096 when it should be 4095. Text is Correct
13:54 Exoplanet is misspelled as Exoplant.


Animation built using Blender 2.79b https://www.blender.org/
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects

Work Cited Alphabetized:
Fossum, Eric. Hondongwa, Donald "A Review of the Pinned Photodiode for CCD and CMOS Image Sensors." IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, Vol. 2, No.3, May 2014, pp33-43

Wase, Yashashree, "CMOS Image Sensor and Quanta Image Sensors: Past, Present and Future", "Advanced CMOS Pixel Technologies." College of Engineering at University of Idaho, pp1-22

Wikipedia contributors. "Active Pixel Sensor." , "Photodiode." , "Sunlight." , "Visible Spectrum." , "Eye." , "Evolution of the Eye." , "Human Eye."  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 May. 2018.

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Timelapsed Tides, Asher Fulero
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