When you're taking quality photos, it's important to know how your camera's settings will affect one another. This is a quick and simple explanation of aperture, one of the most important features on ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac A few days ago, we learned about the iPhone’s shutter, the part of the camera that “opens and closes” to let light onto the sensor. Today, we’re taking an in-depth ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Cameras are complicated machines designed to harness the laws of ...

Lens aperture is increasingly up there with megapixels when it comes to the camera specifications that smartphone makers like to boast about, but what exactly do those numbers mean? Here we look at ...

Here's a look at what we'll be covering today: Shooting modes, or the different ways your camera can assist you in taking a photograph. Flash modes and when to use them. What different image ...

This aperture diagram shows the relationship between the f-stops, designated by numbers 2, 2.8, 4, etc., and the size of the corresponding aperture. In any sequence of f-stops, you are either doubling ...

Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! Previously, I mentioned the exposure triangle and the three functions of the camera that make up that triangle; Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO.