Photography blogger Lau offers a plain-English explanation of two of the most confusing concepts in photography: aperture and focal length. A highlight: Lenses with larger apertures are faster because ...

When most of us talk digital cameras, we talk megapixels, ISO, image noise, shot-per-second speed and image processing. We’re tech geeks. But really, none of that ...

Photography is full of fancy terms and complicated science, but we are here to explain it all to you in simpler terms. Today we are focusing on focal length. This term gets thrown around often, ...

If you want to get creative with your photography, and out of that all-too-tempting automatic mode, you'll need to get your head around a few key settings. We've already looked at ISO, and now it's ...

Focal length is the optical distance in millimeters between a camera lens and the sensor or film. It determines the height and width of the scene being captured, known as the "field of view." A prime ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post was originally published on January 15. This post was updated with the latest info from Samsung. Smartphone manufacturers are forever finding new ways to ...