"DSLR" is an acronym that describes the inner workings of certain cameras. These mechanics have several advantages and ...
There are lots of different types of cameras these days -- 35mm, instant, digital -- but they all have one thing in common: They use light to create photographs. In fact, the word "photograph" comes ...
Understanding how instant cameras work is made a lot easier if you start by thinking of the sheet of film as the film cell or ...
We've seen how the iPhone's camera has evolved over the years — starting with a single 2-megapixel sensor, to now sporting a triple camera setup capable of capturing wide, ultrawide, and telephoto ...
A periscope camera lens is a lens assembly that uses prisms, mirrors, or a combination of them to redirect light before it reaches the camera sensor. In doing so, it magnifies the image more so than ...
Cameras were long ago overtaken by smartphones, but one class of camera, the "mirrorless," has seen a surge of interest in the past five years. Since 2019, unit sales of mirrorless cameras have grown ...
As I write about new camera launches, I often scoff at brags about digital zooms. A digital zoom isn’t a real zoom, I think, ...
In the November 1998 issue of Consumer Reports, a feature story about newfangled digital cameras was sandwiched in between a review of the rebooted Volkswagen Beetle and advice on how to buy a VCR—two ...