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 ...

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

We’ve heard reports before that Apple plans to include a periscope lens on future iPhones, and a new Ming-Chi Kuo report today suggests this is coming in 2022. But what exactly is a periscope lens, ...

Documentary photographer Ian Howorth has travelled the globe and tested out countless cameras along the way. He shares his tips for choosing cameras, lenses and accessories for the perfect shot. Ian ...

MIT's Materials Research Laboratory is working on a camera lens prototype that flips the script on conventional camera focus. This lens, mentioned in detail in this paper here, is able to shift its ...

Sony’s latest enthusiast-focused camera arrived with worrying reports that it didn’t work with third-party lenses. I’ve tested 16 lenses from 6 different brands to establish what’s going on, and how ...

Satoshi Maetaki (left) and Yutaka Nakamura (right) holding the Canon RF 14mm F1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L Fisheye STM, respectively. Photo: Mitchell Clark Last year, we had the opportunity to ...

Replay: Putting an EF lens onto an EF mount camera body does not always guarantee compatibility. Here's why you might sometimes encounter problems on third party systems. To put it mildly, Canon has ...