Photography is full of fancy terms and complicated science, but we are here to explain it all to you in simpler terms. Today we are focusing on focal length. This term gets thrown around often, ...

A lens focuses light onto the sensor of a digital camera and is critical to photography. To help you make an informed choice when buying or mounting an optic, we explain some of the most important ...

Replay: Do we really need to keep using 35mm as our baseline for focal lengths, or is there a much better way? Why do we keep reading descriptions like ‘3.7 mm to 92.5 mm (equivalent to 28.8 mm to 720 ...

Getting a great picture of another person, or even yourself, can be a tough process as there are so many variables to account for. One that's often neglected is focal length, or what essentially ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Knowing how much of your scene you can capture at each lens' focal length is a conundrum every ...

When light moves from air into glass or plastic it is refracted close refractionProcess by which a wave changes speed and sometimes direction upon entering a denser or less dense medium, eg a light ...

When it comes to high-end mobile photography, it’s impossible to escape the camera bump. But why? To understand, let’s dive a little deeper into the inner workings of the smartphone camera. Before ...