It's no secret that the most impressive smartphone cameras have been coming out of China lately – the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, OPPO Find X8 Pro, and Vivo X200 Pro to name a few – and the latest example is the ...

Variable aperture, which once was a digital SLR and mirrorless camera thing has now arrived in smartphones. Every year, smartphone manufacturers look for several advancements in the camera system of ...

Two of Apple's four rumored iPhone models for 2026 are set to receive a big camera upgrade, according to a report from the Korean media outlet ETNews. The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will reportedly ...

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra is coming next year, and it seems like it will ditch dual aperture in favor of variable aperture. That is a move that was more or less expected, but one of the most prominent ...

Apple could add a variable aperture to the iPhone 17’s primary camera. A variable aperture, commonly found in DSLRs and other high-end cameras, would allow the sensor to limit the light intake for ...

You can find a detailed explanation with examples in our earlier explainer, but the executive summary of the key benefit is the ability to control the depth of field (DoF) in a photo. You can have a ...

DJI has released its third action cam in less than four months, the Osmo Action 6. The new GoPro rival offers something we've never seen in this type of camera: a variable aperture for more control ...

The variable aperture is “revolutionary” in that the feature has never been included on a smartphone camera before — but it’s actually an option that has been around since early film photography when ...

Following the company’s confirmation of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra camera sensors, the company’s CEO has just confirmed the addition of variable aperture too. The Xiaomi 13 Ultra will offer variable aperture ...

DJI's upping the ante for image quality out of its action cams with the new Osmo Action 6. It's the first of its kind to get a variable aperture, and it's got a larger sensor that should make for ...