Life is full of foolish myths, ideas that are planted in our brains by rumor, gossip, or misperception, and seem to endure. One of those myths in photography is that sensor size affects depth of field ...

A digital camera’s sensor size can go a long way in determining image quality in a camera. This graphic illustrates common sizes The typical point-and-shoot digital camera has a 5.76 by 4.29 mm sensor ...

The megapixel myth has treated camera manufacturers well over the years, those ever increasing, and often meaningless, numbers have sold millions of cameras. But consumers are getting wise to it.

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Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light on our retinas. What would an eye be ...

Drone cameras come in three main types: integrated (built-in and non-removable), interchangeable lens (allowing lens swaps for flexibility), and specialized (thermal, lidar, multispectral for specific ...

With little room to grow (or shrink) on the housing front, we've begun to see manufacturers take a different approach with point-and-shoot cameras, boosting the size of image sensors to present a ...