iPhone 15 Pro Max Will Be The First Model With A Periscope Zoom Lens
screenrant.comApple will finally put a periscope-style telephoto zoom camera on its smartphones, but according to a reliable market analyst, the perk will initially be exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro Max model set to arrive next year. While that might sound like an odd choice, this won’t be the first time that Apple is reserving the best tech for the top-of-the-line Pro Max trim. Take for example the iPhone 12 Pro Max, which came armed with a wide-angle camera that had a 47 percent larger image sensor behind it, compared to the one fitted inside the regular iPhone 12 Pro.
Moreover, the lens used for the telephoto camera on the iPhone 12 Pro Max offered a narrower f/2.2 aperture compared to the f/2.0 unit on the iPhone 12 Pro, but the former took the optical and digital zoom range to 5x and 12x, respectively. The iPhone 12 Pro, on the other hand, could only deliver a 4x optical and 10x digital zoom range. Additionally, the sensor-shift optical stabilization tech was initially limited to the iPhone 12 Pro Max, before it became a standard for the entire iPhone 13 quartet.
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It looks like the pricier iPhone 15 Pro Max will lead the charge for exclusive innovation into 2023 as well. According to a Medium post by TFI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a periscope zoom camera will first make its way to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and will then be fitted on both the iPhone 16 Pro models in 2024. Camera resolution for the folded lens zooms system will remain locked at 12-megapixels, with an f/2.8 lens for collecting light and a 1/3-inch sensor crunching all the pixel data. As for the zoom range, it will go up to 5x or 6x, up from the 3x zoom-in range currently available on
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