Camera vendors and consumer electronics retailers sell digital cameras as if the pixel count — the number of pixels a camera’s electronics can capture — is the most important measure of quality. I’m ...

Megapixels aren't always the be-all, end-all metric for camera quality that many manufacturers and marketing types make them out to be, even at the largest extremes. In fact, counterintuitive as it ...

When buying a digital camera, many people focus on just one factor: megapixels, the more the better. But that’s not the whole story. Lens quality, image-processing capability and even the size of the ...

If you've ever tried to take a photo of the moon and stars, you know that astrophotography is incredibly challenging. Although there are tips and tricks for taking astrophotos on your cell phone, to ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins its 10-year sky survey, scanning 37 billion objects nightly with a 3.2-gigapixel camera to probe dark matter and energy.

When shopping for a new smartphone, one of the first things you’re likely to consider is the camera. After all, with today’s smartphones, we can capture stunning photos and videos that we can share ...