Camera blur can be your friend. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Your iPhone camera is pretty good at taking photos automatically. You just point it, shoot, and the camera works out all the tricky ...

Finding your Canon camera’s shutter count isn’t as simple as some other manufacturers make it. Since it's not stored in EXIF data, you won't be able to follow the same steps required to find a Nikon ...

You’re sitting at home sipping on a freshly opened can of ice cold beer in your bathroom. Best of all, it’s a Saturday afternoon. Pure bliss. Then, by chance, you lock your gaze squarely at the indoor ...

Compared to ISO and aperture, shutter speed is a relatively straightforward concept to understand. It's the period of time that a camera's sensor (or film) is exposed to light after you hit the ...

The Part 1 of this series about digital camera design has shown how to do the basic calculations that interrelate pixel size, focal length, focal ratio, and spot size, and demonstrated how these ...

To turn off the camera sound on your iPhone, flip the Ring/Silent switch to Silent. You can also silence the shutter noise by enabling the Live Photos feature before taking a picture. Since Live ...

There are few sounds that photographers find more satisfying than the click, clack, or clomp of a camera shutter. Recently, Sails Chong’s captivating video, “Lovely shutter sounds of 18 cameras from ...

Some image sensors must either use a mechanical shutter or a pulsed light source to capture an image. For example, full-frame CCD image sensors, that are used for scientific applications such as ...