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3 quick stories on the rack · #camera tech · Tech
5 min

Optical vs Computational Zoom: How Your Phone Decides

Your phone silently swaps optical for computational zoom mid-shot. Understanding the exact mechanism changes h…

SISana Iqbal
7 min

Why Smartphone Cameras Expose Edge Faces Differently

A face at the corner of your shot often looks darker or washed out. Two problems, optical physics and metering…

LPLeo Park
4 min

Why Autofocus Fails on Repeating Patterns

Tiled floors, brick walls, chain-link fences: the exact optical reason your phone camera locks on the wrong th…

SISana Iqbal