For years, smartphone zoom meant watching fine detail dissolve into a smear of digital noise. That era is ending faster than ...
Alongside the a7R VI, Sony launched an ambitious new telephoto lens: the FE 100-400mm F4.5 GM OSS. It has a constant aperture ...
The Galaxy S26 Ultra replaces the conventional periscope 5x zoom with a new design, likely using Samsung’s ALoP (All Lenses on Prism) technology. While the new setup allows for a wider aperture and ...
In the constant battle to provide consumers the best smartphone camera, one area that Apple has yet to innovate is optical zoom, which could use a so-called "periscope lens." We explain what the ...
The imposing Rubin-1 zoom on the camera it was designed for, the short-lived Zenit-6 (All pics: Roman Yarovitsyn) By Roman Yarovitsyn It happened at last! I’ve got into my hands on a Zenit-6 SLR, ...
Some camera features are worth paying for, while others seem to exist exclusively to print big numbers on the box to sway naive buyers. When it comes to zoom — whether on a smartphone or a camera — ...
Smartphone zoom has made significant strides since the iPhone 7 series debuted a 2x telephoto camera back in 2016. In fact, a 2x telephoto shooter seems rather quaint by modern standards when we have ...
When I was traveling the country back in the mid-2000s doing photojournalism internships at various newspapers, I constantly heard the staff photographers say they were going to “make” a photo. That ...