Snapchat’s “lenses” contain a whole lot of cool technology

Snapchat might be quite a silly and frivolous app to some people, while others live on it.  Regardless of your thoughts on its practical application, it employs some pretty serious technology in order to be able to do what it does with its “lenses”, or filters as most people call them. From the same facial recognition principles […]

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The future of mobile photography, and dual camera systems

Mobile photography has become more popular than anybody could’ve imagine over the last few years.  Instagram receives 80+ million image uploads per day, and Facebook see an insane 300 million photo uploads every single day. But the technology of a single tiny sensor and lens is starting to hit its limit.  There’s only so far you can […]

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Twin Rear Cameras On Smartphones Brings Optical Zoom Quality With no Moving Parts

According to Israeli company, Corephotonics, while mobile sensor resolution increases, the effective resolution and image quality of cameras in mobile devices remains relatively low. Although the technology is improving with each new generation of smartphones that gets released, as well as other oddities, things like motion blur, lack of optical zoom, low light performance and focus issues still […]

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Adobe Leaks Themselves with Lightroom Mobile 2.0 for Android. Still not available

An interesting teaser from the Adobe Blogs popped up on my news feed briefly last night, stating that Lightroom 2.0 for Android had now been released. Listing several cool new features, I thought this was worth a look, only to discover that the actual post on Adobe’s website did not exist, nor did any reference to it in the Adobe […]

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Short Movie Shows How Happy Casual Social Media Photos Are Really Taken

I’ve always held the opposite opinion when confronted with the phrase “The camera never lies”. If you ask me, the camera’s always lied and that lying often causes controversy. This amusing video by Bí Kíp Sống Ảo goes some way towards showing just how true this is, especially when it comes to social media photography. Even before digital, the […]

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6 Tips for Taking the Best Smartphone Pictures

Whether you are taking pictures with a $2,000 DSLR or your smartphone, there are some basic steps you can follow to ensure crisp and memorable pictures. With a modern smartphone, you have a camera that is capable of taking amazingly sharp pictures, but you need to understand how to find the right conditions (contrast, focus, […]