The megapixel race in smartphone cameras is one of consumer tech's most stable marketing narratives. Every launch season brings another wave of marketing across my desk. This time the headline number ...

If you squeeze more megapixels onto a sensor of a given size, a camera works worse in dim conditions. So what's better, more megapixels or higher sensitivity? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Megapixels aren't always the be-all, end-all metric for camera quality that many manufacturers and marketing types make them out to be, even at the largest extremes. In fact, counterintuitive as it ...

Apple follows Samsung and others with sensors that can capture more photo detail. Here's how it'll change your phone photography. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

There’s a common misconception in the world of digital cameras—let’s call it the Megapixel Myth—that more megapixels mean better photos. 7.0 Megapixel Camera + Zoom from CrowdCafé promises better ...

A Kuo report last week suggested that Apple’s 2022 iPhone lineup could see a huge jump in the pixel count of the two Pro models, with an upgrade from a 12- to 48-megapixel sensor. While more is ...

Camera vendors and consumer electronics retailers sell digital cameras as if the pixel count — the number of pixels a camera’s electronics can capture — is the most important measure of quality. I’m ...

It’s true that software and machine learning are more important than hardware when it comes to delivering the best smartphone cameras. But it’s also true that hardware plays a part, and that over the ...