A periscope camera lens is a lens assembly that uses prisms, mirrors, or a combination of them to redirect light before it reaches the camera sensor. In doing so, it magnifies the image more so than ...

Google Lens is an application developed by Google that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to scrutinize and comprehend images, objects, and text captured through your smartphone’s camera. Once an ...

Camera lenses are often described as being 'aspherical', but what does it mean, and is it the only way to design a lens? A lot of lenses are spherical, though. What we mean by “spherical” is usually ...

What is a periscope camera? Short answer: not a submariner snapping photos through the vessel's pop-up spy tube. Actual answer: an ingenious solution to getting a (relatively) long focal length into a ...

Smartphone users often encounter unfamiliar items. While you can search using a typed description, this approach doesn't work for every object. Here's where Google Lens comes into play. It is a Google ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most photographers will start out with zoom lenses, but the more serious you get about the hobby, the more likely you are to seek out ...

Camera lens names might look like gibberish, but they have meaning. We decode the naming conventions of 11 lens manufacturers, including Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, and other major brands. Images, and the ...