A Silicon Valley startup is developing an optical zoom lens unit that’s thin enough to slip inside of a smartphone and won’t protrude when used. DynaOptics has spent two years working on the device, ...

Smartphone cameras are making huge strides these days. Image clarity is on the up, while noise and crosstalk in smaller sensors is gradually being reduced. Despite all these improvements, smartphone ...

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Founded in 2011, Apexel are an award-winning company who cater for the needs of the ever-growing smartphone market by offering a wide range of lenses. I’d already been impressed with Apexel's ...

Your phone has been lying to you. Every time you zoom in to catch that perfect shot of that $20 hamburger you’re not actually zooming in. The software in your phone is really just cropping the image ...

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All of the best smartphones today have one thing in common: they have excellent cameras. You can get lost in the DxOMark ratings, the industry standard for camera ratings, and gripe at the minutiae of ...

One camera. Two separate lenses. That's the conundrum raised by leaked images of HTC's forthcoming M8 smartphone, which is rumored to bring some interesting new imaging features that go far beyond ...

A Silicon Valley startup is developing an optical zoom lens unit that’s thin enough to slip inside of a smartphone and won’t protrude when used. DynaOptics has spent two years working on the device, ...