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 ...

Laowa appears to be working on a new macro lens. This in itself isn't particularly noteworthy, as according to the official Venus Optics website (the parent company of the Laowa brand), there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A small sensor is usually a bad thing, but some point-and-shoot cameras can use a tiny sensor for closer macro photography ...

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 ...

Sony's first 2012 camera to have a transculent mirror is the Alpha A57, successor to the two-year-old A55 and available in stores in April. Shooting at 12 frames per second, it's a speedy model with ...

I put the Oppo Find X9 Pro’s Hasselblad telephoto lens to the test on moon shots and star clusters. Here’s what worked and ...

The maker of binoculars and spotting scopes has a $145 adapter that turns your fancy smartphone into a camera with a supertelephoto lens. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Smartphone cameras have improved vastly over the last decade, replacing point-and-shoot and even DSLR cameras for many users. Most modern ...