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Everything You Need to Know About the iPhone 15 Camera Specifications
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Apple need not be first with specific features as long as the net camera product remains excellent. Each year iPhones remain ~at state of the art.
I was all set to upgrade my crusty old iPhone X to a 15 Pro, but if the 15 will have an even better sensor, it looks like I'll just save some $ and get that. If it uses the same (year-old) sensor, and doesn't get the periscope telephoto lens, the case for the 15 Pro is pretty weak. Sure, it'll have a newer A-series chip, but is anyone complaining about a modern iPhone being too slow?
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New rumores regarding the periscope-tele for iPhone 15 pro max (from China): 1/1.9'' sensor / 85 mm / F2.8.
This would mean "only" 3,5x zoom, but with an extreme large sensor for a tele and probably 48MP for 7x digital zoom with 12 MP.
If true, it would mean Appe - again - is not going for the biggest spec (10x optical zoom) but for an extremly well balanced option which would do great for e. g. portrait even in low-light situations.
This would mean "only" 3,5x zoom, but with an extreme large sensor for a tele and probably 48MP for 7x digital zoom with 12 MP.
If true, it would mean Appe - again - is not going for the biggest spec (10x optical zoom) but for an extremly well balanced option which would do great for e. g. portrait even in low-light situations.
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I will just buy the new iPhone when it has the Sony IMX 903. But not this old spec Camera. ..And a useless Telephoto with 2.8
While the term „game changer“ may seem a bit over used it’s perfectly valid if applied to the development of cell phone camera technologies over the last 10, 15 years. There have been huge leaps imo.
The IMX803 is nearly 50% larger than it's predecessor. The IMX903 will only be slightly larger (1,14" for the IMX903 instead of 1/1.28" for the IMX803). Furthermore, the 24 mm focal length of the IMX803 are allready at practical limits. If the IMX903 will stay there it will have an even larger camera bump or it will get even shorter, making the main camara more-and-more to a kind of ultra wide.
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You do know that the imx 858 is a way worse sensor right? Naming doesn't mean anything.
There are phones with 3x or 3.5x periscopes that produce incredible results. If they used a 10x periscope you'd have very bad quality photos between 2x and 9.9x.
Did you even read what you posted? It's 10x OPTICAL and 100x DIGITAL.
Exactly. The IMX 858 will probably be used in the normal iPhone 15 / 15 plus. Therefor they will be 48MP but with a smaller - and of course cheaper - main sensor.
No. The imx 858 would also be a downgrade compared to what the 14/14 plus had.
While true, it enabels 50MP and many other "modern" features. However you're correct that it is unlikely and untipical for Apple to use a smaller sensor for "Spec purposes" with actual worse real-life performance. Reminds me of HTC.
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You don‘t understand. No Samsung phone has real optical zoom. I really hope the Pro Max will. Otherwise, yeah, I‘ll be disappointed.
Right. And this is exactly why these lenses should not be called „zoom“, but „tele“. A real zoom has optical magnification along a range of focal lengths, i.e. a 3x-6x zoom will be optical at 3x as well as 3.5x, 4.8x and 6x, and all numbers inbetween.
So far this is true, but I believe the 15 PM will have a real zoom lens. Apple waited quite long to be able to make this happen.
Wrong. There is a Sony phone (as well as an Oppo one) with real optical zoom.
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What users (should) really want is a true optical zoom, not scattered optical tele lenses.
It is quite possible that there was just not enough space in the 6.1“ model. This is probably also the reason the 16 Pro is rumored to go to 6.3“.
Apple will absolutely not go to the lengths of implementing a periscope lens just to go from 3x to 3.5x.
Please read my answer above regarding the difference between zoom and tele. A zoom is optical across a range of focal lengths, a tele just at one fixed focal length.
No. What you're saying is called a variable optical zoom which is what the Sony has. Phones have achieved optical zoom through the use of different lenses with longer focal ranges and everything in between is digital zoom.
Sorry, but please go to any photography website to educate yourself. Every zoom is „variable optical“, otherwise it is not a zoom but a fixed focal length. That‘s why all iPhone (and Samsung etc.) smartphones so far do not really have „zoom“ lenses but tele lenses. They just use the term „zoom“ wrong.
This has to be proved. Many enthusiasts actually view it as a critical point to let go of the 3,5x optical option, especially for portrait and others.
Furthermore, Apple has a history of not going "standart" regarding teh pure spec pushing.
They may use the really large sensor (for a tele lens), which ist actually the size of the iPhone 12 pro main sensor, to allow for comperativly high quality crooping up to 14x digital zoom. Or the 85 mm is just the lower end of the option and it really has 85mm and another fixed at around 300 mm. However, taht is currently rumored for the 16 "Ultra".