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 ...

In our camera shopping guide, we’ve tried to simplify the distinctions between compact cams and interchangeable lens cameras. Now, we want to tackle one factor you should consider before you buy a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to get closer? Then it's optical zoom vs digital zoom. But what are they and which is best to use? When it comes to smartphone photography, zoom is something you really want to use carefully, as ...

"It’s not the camera, but the person behind the camera that makes great pictures." Every seasoned photographer will bestow these words of wisdom on the less financially equipped. But in the case of ...

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 ...

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 ...

LG may not make smartphones anymore, but it's still building components for them. The company's LG Innotek arm just unveiled a periscope-style true optical zoom camera module with a 4-9 times ...