Apple iPhone camera technology and computational photography.
Light painting turns a flashlight into a paintbrush and the night into a canvas. By keeping the camera’s shutter open for seconds — or even minutes — you can draw glowing shapes, outline objects, and…
Walk into any electronics store and nearly every 4K television now wears an "HDR" badge right next to its resolution. But HDR is not one thing — it is a family of competing standards that…
A wide landscape, a sweeping skyline, or the full interior of a cathedral simply won't fit in a single frame — even with your widest lens. Panorama photography solves this by capturing a sequence of…
Your phone knows how far away things are — and it uses that knowledge constantly. When Portrait Mode blurs the background behind a subject, when Face ID unlocks the screen, and when autofocus locks on…
Every time you press the record button, your camera does a small miracle: it turns a stream of full-resolution images into a compact file you can actually store and share. The technology that decides how…
Ask almost any beginner what makes a camera good and you'll hear "megapixels." It's the number printed on every box and shouted in every ad — yet for most people it's one of the least…
Tap the shutter on a modern iPhone or a recent mirrorless camera and there's a good chance your photo is saved in a format most people have never heard of: HEIF, not JPEG. The trusty…
Until recently, a smartphone with a true optical zoom was almost impossible to build. The math is brutal: to magnify a scene 5x over the main camera, a lens needs a focal length of roughly…
Your camera can capture millions of colors, but which of those colors actually make it into your final file depends on one setting many photographers ignore: the color space. Choose the wrong one and a…
Open the camera app on a modern flagship phone and the marketing will shout "200MP" or "48MP" at you. Yet check the file your phone actually saves, and it is often a 12-megapixel image. Those…