When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creating stable and sharp images with an HD camera/lens combination requires that the optical ...

Modern lenses are super high—tech. A typical 18—55-mm zoom lens has 11 elements, multiple drive motors, optical image stabilization and an integrated circuit board. In the quaint old days of analog ...

Photography was once an art form reserved for inventors, aristocrats, and especially enthusiastic hobbyists. The process involved complex chemistry, careful adherence to procedure, and more than a ...

That vacation to Yellowstone is too exciting and too beautiful to document with just a smartphone. This emerging category of hybrids delivers DSLR-grade images sans the DSLR-grade bulk. The Basics: ...

In the previous lesson we covered the basic settings on your camera. Today we're jumping into the fun stuff: manual mode. We'll learn the details about shutter speed, ISO, and aperture, as well as how ...

For this series on camera modes, we picked six common shooting scenarios, some of which require tricky manual adjustments to capture the ideal shot, and took pictures in each scenario: one using the ...

Early cameras and modern cameras work pretty much the same way. A lens (or a pinhole acting as a lens) focuses an image onto a sensor. Of course, sensor, in this case, is a broad term and could ...