The earliest surviving film is a static shot from 1888 captured by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It’s a snippet showing four people skipping around a secluded garden property in Yorkshire, England.

A PTZ camera is a video camera that is operated with a remote controller. PTZ is an acronym for Pan, Tilt, and Zoom—the three primary movement functions that a camera operator would traditionally ...

In the constant battle to provide consumers the best smartphone camera, one area that Apple has yet to innovate is optical zoom, which could use a so-called "periscope lens." We explain what the ...

Virtually all Android phones have preset zoom buttons in the camera app. For example, the Google Pixel 9 offers 0.5x, 1x, and 2x levels while the Pro models have an extra button for 5x zoom thanks to ...