Since optical zoom entered the mobile market, conversations about zoom technology in smartphones have become more common. Smartphones can now implement all three types of camera zoom: optical, digital ...

Dual camera smartphone technology certainly isn’t new anymore, but we are seeing a new trend emerge whereby manufacturers are offering “optical zoom” capabilities inside their smartphones. Two notable ...

A combination of optical zooming, Visual AI tracking, and multi-camera switching enables automated broadcast-quality video. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Most mobile phones set the 23 - 27mm focal length to 1x (1.0x). Thus, the super wide-angle is 0.4x, 0.5x, 0.6x, and the medium telephoto is 2.0x, 3.0x, 5.0x... But this brings about two basic ...

As I was covering the iPhone announcement earlier this week, there was a moment in Apple's presentation that made me double-take. Describing the new iPhone Air, the company said: "What might appear to ...

Samsung might have everyone mesmerized by its foldable Galaxy Fold phone (for now), but if you really want to see weird and wonderful phone innovations, you need to look at what Chinese tech companies ...

Intended for use in high-end camera phones, the LZ0P3738 debuts as the industry?s first 2-Mpixel CCD, frame interline transfer (FIT) camera module with a 2x optical inner zoom lens that is easily ...

Not everyone has the cash to spring for a full-on medium-format camera rig for drone photography, but there are lots of other options out there, including the new DJI Zenmus Z3, which is its first ...

Huawei officially announced the Huawei P30 Pro smartphone today. While it has a new Huawei-made SoC, an in-screen optical fingerprint reader, and lots of other high-end features, the highlight is ...