Most consumer point and shoot digital cameras say something like, "5x optical zoom," or "9x optical zoom" on the box. But, when you move up to micro-4/3s and SLRs, you lose that. It makes sense - the ...

Regular readers will know that we love the functionality that comes with smartphone cameras, including inherent portability, powerful processors, and imaginative post-processing app solutions. However ...

This article is part of our roundup of iPhone camera lenses. I like bees. Very much. And macro photos of bees? They send me over the (magnified) moon. Photos taken with so-called macro lenses let you ...

This is one of the weirdest and most extraordinary new camera lenses we've ever seen. Laowa's 24 mm f/14 probe lens looks bizarre, works like nothing else we've come across, and offers a truly ...

Macro lenses provide a unique ability to magnify tiny details to their true-to-life size, or at times even larger than life. They can reveal details our eyes may not be able to pick up on, allowing us ...

I dabble in digital photography-- over at my other blog, I'm doing a photo-a-day project-- which means that, like a lot of amateur photographers, I've acquired a collection of lenses of various types.

Is it worth buying a full-size camera these days? The reasons to do so grow smaller and smaller as smartphone cameras get better and better. It’s getting to the point where you have to spend a ...

An image of a mystery Laowa wide-angle zoom for Sony E-mount has appeared online. I’d like to see a 12-20mm, it’ll probably ...

This article is part of our roundup of iPhone camera lenses. Surely the greatest frustration in taking photos on a smartphone versus the cheapest snapshot digital camera is the lack of an optical zoom ...