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 ...

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.

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 ...

The A on your camera’s mode dial is not for Amateur (and the P is not for Professional, but that’s another story). Aperture priority mode, designated by A or Av on the camera’s mode dial, blends the ...

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 ...

Don’t be limited by how you used to take pictures, Lytro is a different kind of camera. Digital cameras have fallen victim to a common problem in our gadget-obsessed era: They are in a pitched battle ...

The variable aperture is “revolutionary” in that the feature has never been included on a smartphone camera before — but it’s actually an option that has been around since early film photography when ...