iPhone 15 Pro Max Apple.com listing iPhone 15 pro as 10x optical?

[psychonaut]

Noticed tonight that on Apple.com if you click the buy link for the iPhone 15 pro or 15 and under the “which iPhone is right for you” it’s listing the 15pro lineup as having up to 10x optical zoom and the 15 having up to 4x. When it should be 5x and 2x.

If you click on “compare all models” that page then reflects the correct info. With the pro max at 5x, pro at 3x and 15 at 2x

Am I missing something or is this listed in error on the Apple website?

 

[macduke]

This is correct. The iPhone 15 and 15 Pro have a 24mm main camera, but the 0.5X is half that, so about 12mm. The new zoom lens on the 15 Pro is 120mm, so the zoom range is 10x, but it’s only 5X from the normal camera. And it’s actually good on Apple for not pushing the 10X thing in most of their marketing, which they could easily do.

The “X” thing has always been a problem in consumer photography, and why professionals measure everything in focal length in millimeters. Like my Sony 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM. Which even though it has way more “zoom” than my iPhone 15 Pro Max, is technically only a 4X zoom, lol. Even with my 1.4X teleconverter on it, because everything is multiplied evenly.

 

[Cryates]

10x optical RANGE.

0.5x-to-5x is 10x range.

 

[skrungemaster]

10x optical RANGE.

0.5x-to-5x is 10x range.

That’s like saying my car can go 200mph because it can go 100mph backwards, and then 100mph forward.

 

[drugdoubles]

Noticed tonight that on Apple.com if you click the buy link for the iPhone 15 pro or 15 and under the “which iPhone is right for you” it’s listing the 15pro lineup as having up to 10x optical zoom and the 15 having up to 4x. When it should be 5x and 2x.

If you click on “compare all models” that page then reflects the correct info. With the pro max at 5x, pro at 3x and 15 at 2x

Am I missing something or is this listed in error on the Apple website?

This is Apple marketing BS as usual.