a, An axi-symmetric binary phase filter (BPF) and image reconstruction network are jointly learned through the physics-informed neural network. The learned BPF is fabricated and inserted in a pupil ...

As amateur photographers grow in skill and move to more sophisticated cameras, one of the challenges they face is learning how to control depth of field. Depth of field—the portion of a scene that ...

The hottest new trend in photography is manipulating Depth of Field, or DOF. It’s how you get those wonderful portraits with the subject in focus and the background ever so artfully blurred out. In ...

The area in an image from front to back that is in focus. The smaller the aperture (the larger the f-stop number), the more objects are in focus both near and distant. The wider the aperture (the ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Apple plans to introduce variable aperture lens technology in the iPhone 18 when it launches in 2026, according to industry sources. The advancement is expected to significantly enhance photography ...

The integration of depth control into smartphone cameras seems to be a growing trend among mobile phones today, but its capability is limited by the fact that the depth of field can only be adjusted ...

In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out much of ...