How Smartphone Photography Works

Season 1Episode 14490 minFeb 17, 2018
How Smartphone Photography Works

On this episode of The New Screen Savers with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone:

- What makes smartphone cameras so good? Rishi Sanyal from DPReview compares two of the best, the iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL, and discuss computational photography.

- So many gadgets, where to charge them? Megan has a docking station problem, so she tries out several charging stations to see what works, what's the best, and what you need to know to build your own.

- Back in 2015 on show #11, we saw amazing images of Pluto from The New Horizons spacecraft. Now the craft just sent back some record-breaking pictures. Megan talks with researcher Simon Porter about the farthest images ever made from Earth and what is in the future for the mission.

- Jason Howell has some tips for using the new features in the DuckDuckGo privacy search engine app for Android.

- In Call for Help, find a way to separate your work from personal photos on the iPhone.

How Smartphone Photography Works has aired on Feb 17, 2018 at 6:00 PM
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