Photography is full of fancy terms and complicated science, but we are here to explain it all to you in simpler terms. Today we are focusing on focal length. This term gets thrown around often, ...

A lens focuses light onto the sensor of a digital camera and is critical to photography. To help you make an informed choice when buying or mounting an optic, we explain some of the most important ...

You may or may not have heard, but lenses do more than just change the perspective of the scene you are looking at through your camera. That distortion and change in perspective also affects how a ...

Replay: Do we really need to keep using 35mm as our baseline for focal lengths, or is there a much better way? Why do we keep reading descriptions like ‘3.7 mm to 92.5 mm (equivalent to 28.8 mm to 720 ...

Why is 'depth of field' or 'depth of focus' greater with a smaller aperture on a camera or when the iris in your eye is closed down to a smaller pupil size? Ever since people first noticed that you ...

When it comes to high-end mobile photography, it’s impossible to escape the camera bump. But why? To understand, let’s dive a little deeper into the inner workings of the smartphone camera. Before ...

If you recently acquired your first interchangeable lens camera, you’re probably already thinking about what lenses to add to your bag. As cool as your new DSLR or mirrorless camera is now, it won’t ...

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“We are confident in saying there is nothing like this on the market,” says Darcy Daugela, 58, chairman at NexOptic Technology Corp. He’s referring to the DoubleTake, which he describes as a ...