Scientists built the largest digital camera ever, weighing 3 tons with a 5-foot lens, for astronomy. The LSST camera is designed to take thousands of 3,200-megapixel images of the entire southern sky.

Imagine snapping a photo where every detail, near and far, is perfectly sharp—from the flower petal right in front of you to the distant trees on the horizon. For over a century, camera designers have ...

The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is, to put it mildly, a unique camera. Unique, at least, in the modern era of point-and-shoot cameras. Its headline feature, its only major feature really, is an absolutely ...

“In optics, there was a problem,” says Amit Agrawal, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. If you wanted to focus a single lens to two different points ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is, to put it mildly, a unique ...