Some camera features are worth paying for, while others seem to exist exclusively to print big numbers on the box to sway naive buyers. When it comes to zoom — whether on a smartphone or a camera — ...

With a few notable exceptions, most smartphone cameras zoom either digitally or via a few optical zoom presets. That could soon change, however, as LG Innotek has announced its new Optical Telephoto ...

Roland Quandt says Galaxy S27 Ultra will keep a 50MP 5x optical zoom telephoto camera, while the selfie camera moves to 16MP ...

LG is done with making smartphones, but the company and its various sub-brands are still working on components for other smartphone makers. Ahead of CES 2023, LG Innotek has announced a new optical ...

The HONOR Magic 9 could get a 500mm teleconverter for roughly 20.8x optical zoom, but the bulky accessory remains an unconfirmed leak.

A few days ago, it was rumored that the iPhone 17 Pro models will offer up to 8× optical zoom, and this could explain why the devices are expected to have significantly larger rear camera bumps ...

Most mobile phones set the 23 - 27mm focal length to 1x (1.0x). Thus, the super wide-angle is 0.4x, 0.5x, 0.6x, and the medium telephoto is 2.0x, 3.0x, 5.0x... But this brings about two basic ...

The camera component supplier has unveiled a telephoto module with real moving optics to cover a 4-9x range — no digital zoom required. The camera component supplier has unveiled a telephoto module ...

But when it comes to zoom, we’ve seen a major trend for manufacturers to fudge the numbers, lie by omission, mislead the public, or simply fail to adequately explain their capabilities. The ...

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro Max is rumoured to get an exclusive variable aperture camera, a first for the iPhone lineup. The Pro Max could also feature a more powerful telephoto lens with up to 6x optical ...

The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is marketed as the successor to the Coolpix P1000 from 2018. Although the previous model is already seven years old, the technical upgrades are rather limited. The Coolpix ...