LG may not make smartphones anymore, but it's still building components for them. The company's LG Innotek arm just unveiled a periscope-style true optical zoom camera module with a 4-9 times ...

Smartphone camera technology still has some scope for improvements when it comes to achieving DSLR camera-like photography. Lately, we saw the periscope architecture for phones which allows for ...

Today’s high-end smartphone cameras still rely heavily on computational imaging for some telephoto shots, but LG subsidiary LG Innotek looks set to change that with its new optical zoom camera ...

Oppo appears ready to take the smartphone photography battle to new heights in 2026 with the upcoming Find X9 Ultra-a device ...

They inspire and motivate you to click photos, and with this, Xiaomi seems to be heading in that direction. The tactile feel of a physical zoom ring certainly adds to that. Many would compare it to ...

Sunny Optics and Varioptic jointly announce the launch of first autofocus camera module based on a liquid lens. The first commercial autofocus camera module based on a liquid lens has been designed ...

With a few notable exceptions, most smartphone cameras zoom either digitally or via a few optical zoom presets. That could soon change, however, as LG Innotek has announced its new Optical Telephoto ...

Higher-end phones are getting more options to take photos at a wide range of zoom settings, thanks to creative use of high-resolution sensors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Leica Edition features a physical Master Zoom Ring for controlling zoom on its 200MP periscope camera. Check it out!

The new camera includes a telephoto lens with up to 9x zoom and takes the "bump" out of smartphone cameras. Bree Fowler writes about cybersecurity and digital privacy. Before joining CNET she reported ...

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, introduced the Neutrino SX8 mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) camera module and four additional Neutrino IS Series models designed for ...