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The quality of camera phones is continually improving — more megapixels, better lenses, improved image-processing software, anti hand-shake features. The one area that has been lagging behind is the ...

As I conceptually discussed last May, following up with a teardown nearly a year later (and earlier this year), master flash units mated to cameras’ hot shoes are often also capable of, whether via IR ...

Chinese company Godox has developed a pocketable device which finally overcomes one of the biggest disadvantages smartphones have over ‘proper’ cameras - decent off-camera flash. Announcing its new A1 ...

Camera shops usually will give disposable flash units away for free. The flash capacitor, output rectifier, and transformer are de-soldered easily for use in the new circuit. Parts of a throwaway ...

The Godox iT32 flash and X5 wireless trigger join together with magnetic attraction but additional triggers make dedicated ...

We don’t think this one is going to bring back the days of one-time-use flash bulbs. But for camera enthusiasts who do have old flash units lying around this will be quite interesting. [Sven] worked ...

Taking title as the smallest available, the SP6686 current-regulated, buck/boost charge pump drives the LED in camera flash units with 400 mA of current from its 3 mm x 3 mm DFN package. The device ...

What with the huge sensitivity range of modern digital cameras, and the strong likelihood of finding a built-in flash on most models, it might be a logical assumption that the days of producing ...