When you click a photo, that familiar ‘click’ sound helps both you and the person posing in front of you confirm that the photo has been taken. But have you ever wondered why cameras make this sound ...

[Benn Jordan] had an idea. He’d heard of motion amplification technology, where cameras are used to capture tiny vibrations in machinery and then visually amplify it for engineering analysis. This is ...

There are few sounds that photographers find more satisfying than the click, clack, or clomp of a camera shutter. Recently, Sails Chong’s captivating video, “Lovely shutter sounds of 18 cameras from ...

Though they hauled pricey high-end cameras and lenses with them on shoots, top-notch microphones seemed to be absent from their kits. Some might take an audio recorder and parabolic microphone with ...

Designed for undersea use, the device could operate autonomously for weeks. MIT researchers have developed a battery-­free, wireless underwater camera that is about 100,000 times more energy efficient ...