It's a kind of stupid the tech spec aren't the same between 15 Pro and Pro Max again. I like the 6'1 size screen.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max's 5x Optical Zoom Lens Rumored to Expand to Both iPhone 16 Pro Models
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I prefer having just 3x rather than 5x and NO 3x.
No zoom level between 1x and 5x is a significant problem. 5x or more is only good when you still have the 3x option.
No zoom level between 1x and 5x is a significant problem. 5x or more is only good when you still have the 3x option.
Tetraprism is just a way to make a telephoto lens just like a periscope lens, not a zoom lens itself. Do you even know how a zoom lens works? Clearly, you don't. I told you, where is the zoom range if it's a zoom lens? It's just a 120mm prime lens, that's all. How does it even zoom OPTICALLY?
Samsung is probably getting ready to announce a 50x optical prism lens system to one up Apple. That way, they won't have to AI-Photoshop the moon.
That’s optical zooming, regardless of where it is; anything else is cropping and/or digital zooming. Even cameras call that kind of zooming “digital teleconverter”, not “teleconverter”. So if you want to call it zooming, which is fine, be honest about how the zooming is accomplished via digital methods and don’t call it optical zooming.
The tetraprism lens design is smaller than the same periscope lens design or a traditional lens design. Sounds like advancing technology to me.
LOL. And I thought true photographers hate zoom lens & always prefer prime. Now someone here seem to love it (not you, Ryan 😉). I wonder why.
I didn’t say it wasn’t, and the premise of my comment requires it to be advancing technology to make sense.
First: stop screaming, it's rude.
Second: stop assuming we don't know how photography works, it's double rude.
Third: stop assuming you know how the tetraprism in iPhone 15 works like digital zoom, it's triple rude.
These are five physical parts of lenses, none of them are digital crops:
1. Macro
2. 13mm Ultra-wide f/2.2
3. 24mm f/1.78 main camera
4. 48mm equivalent FOV from the previous iPhone
5. 120mm f/2.8
There are however two digital crop "lenses" which are not part of the above:
1. 28mm FOV shift from that main camera (see note)
2. 35mm FOV shift from that main camera (see note)
There FOVs combine a 48mm detail shot into the image capture and compilation process. This gives you a 24-megapixel image which is very similar to the 24mm main camera’s standard output (excellent detail and were very usable in real-world situations).
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First: stop screaming, it's rude.
Second: stop assuming we don't know how photography works, it's double rude.
Third: stop assuming you know how the tetraprism in iPhone 15 works like digital zoom, it's triple rude.
These are five physical lenses, none of them are digital crops:
1. Macro
2. 13mm Ultra-wide f/2.2
3. 24mm f/1.78 main camera
4. 48mm equivalent FOV from the previous iPhone
5. 120mm f/2.8
There are however two digital crop "lenses" which are not part of the above:
1. 28mm FOV shift from that main camera (see note)
2. 35mm FOV shift from that main camera (see note)
There FOVs combine a 48mm detail shot into the image capture and compilation process. This gives you a 24-megapixel image which is very similar to the 24mm main camera’s standard output (excellent detail and were very usable in real-world situations).
5 physical lenses? Really? Both Macro and 48mm equivalent are just part of other lenses. Clearly, you don't know about it.
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The point is it is "physical'. Tell me, which part of it is digital, mr who think he knows it all?
First, macro means it has more close focus distance, nothing more. How come it's a separate lens? All you have to do is move closer with wide angle lenses or any lens with close focus distance. Telephoto lenses can be macro if the close focus distance is short enough.
Second, 48mm is just CROPPED. If not, where is the camera sensor just for 48mm? Even Apple website mentioned that it's enabled by quad‑pixel sensor which is def NOT physical.
Clearly, you don't know anything about how camera works. There are only 3 lenses and therefore, it only has 3 physical lenses. Both macro and 48mm are just part of other lenses as a feature itself.
You literally can see 3 physical lenses and I have no idea wth you are saying.
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You are correct that there are not 5 physical lenses because all you have to do is look at the array to see 3 lenses; the ProMax really should have had 4 cameras because its a huge jump from the main to the 5X. Macro mode is a crop of the 13mm camera and 24MP focal length is a crop of the main 48MP camera. I’m looking froward to the camera tests because I want to see how good Apple is at upsampling in that big gap. I wonder which looks better, the Pro at 120mm or the ProMax at 77mm; I suspect the former which is why I’m getting a 15 Pro.
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I am very surprised that people don't know anything about cameras and yet claiming false info without knowing camera technology.
Isn’t that the truth.
There is no separate macro camera, so where are those photos coming from If not the ultrawide? But hey, if you don’t believe me believe Apple. There’s more going on both with image enhancing and AF in macro, but it’s still cropping the ultrawide.
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If you are talking about close up images, then some of those lenses have close focus distance to enable macro feature. Nothing new. Like I said, wide lenses tend to have macro features due to its minimum close focus distance.
The telephoto can still use as a macro if it's within the minimum focus distance if the object is not TOO small.
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