Did you hear about the HTC One's fancy new "UltraPixel Camera"? HTC touts the camera as an end to the "megapixel wars." UltraPixels! Revolution! And, yes, the technology sounds very promising, but, uh, wait a second, what is an UltraPixel anyway? Read More >>
Featured comment by josh.moulder:
"ah i see, i took the diagram at face value
i'm still very skeptical of this though, well, we'll see when it's released and real photo's are taken, ..." More »
The spec of your phone's camera looks like being the next tech battleground now everything half decent is running on a monstrous quad-core chipset, with Google joining HTC in banging on about how amazing its next Nexus phone camera's going to be. Read More >>
Toshiba's new TCM5115CL 20-megapixel image sensor is the highest-resolution ever built for the tiniest point-and-shoot cameras. Uh oh, are the megapixel wars back? Read More >>
Featured comment by Bleary:
"This might be a bit simplistic but doesn't having a humungous megapixel count mean you capture more detail & so can zoom & crop photos with so..." More »
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who understands cameras and megapixels and storage space but it could be a good excuse to not get suckered by the megapixel wars in buying a camera. The more pixels, the more space it takes. A thousand images taken on the 36 megapixeled Nikon D800 takes up 47 gigs. A thousand images on the reasonable 12 megapixel Nikon D3s? Only 15 gigs. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"It's all about communication and how, whilst we may be better connected than ever before, we are actually further apart. This piece highlights the inc..." More »
Featured comment by Simalacrum:
"Well pixels can count depending on the situation, but, particularly in the case of low light situations or circumstances where a high ISO becomes nece..." More »
A spy shot of Sony's forthcoming NEX-F3 mirrorless camera has revealed what the plastic's going to look like on the top-left corner of the camera, and, more importantly, that Sony's going to be stuffing a 16.1-Megapixel sensor into the thing. Read More >>
Here's how you know your phone's camera is powerful: If it has 41 freaking megapixels. Here's how you know to trust your powerful camera phone: If it's used to make a commercial about itself. Yep, the Nokia 808 PureView was used to make a commercial about the Nokia 808 PureView. A clever way to see how good (and ridiculous) the camera is. [YouTube] Read More >>
Featured comment by hughes82:
"meh i dont like windows phones, android is ok
to be hoenst i dont know why people hate symbian nor do i care, ive had my nokia n8 since launch and ..." More »
The shocking news of the day — Nokia is making a phone with a 41-megapixel camera—is shocking for all the wrong reasons. It may shoot higher-res than most DSLRs, but that won't help you at all. Why? After a certain point, megapixels don't matter. Read More >>