I've used the 5x tele on the PM 15 and it is surprisingly stable when shooting video. Pretty amazing tech. However, I agree that I miss the 3x support, especially in Portrait or Cinematic mode. I believe Apple will "solve" this when they add a fourth lens to the iPhone Ultra. (If they truly are adding that shutter button, you know this is eventually coming.)
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iPhone 16 Pro Again Rumored to Include Tetraprism Telephoto Lens With 5X Optical Zoom
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iPhone 16 Pro Max should support the Apple Pencil.
That’s poorly written. The camera difference between Pro Max and Pro first occurred on the iPhone 12 Pro series, 3 generations before the 15.
Article: https://michaellong.medium.com/a-periscope-lens-uses-a-prism-to-flip-the-light-90-and-send-it-down-a-tube-to-a-sensor-located-at-2dafb21d94a5#:~:text=1-,A periscope lens uses a prism to flip the light,back to the original axis.
What is interesting is that Apple or more accurately, this ‘rumor' is implying that Apple has added Tetraprism capability to their Periscope lens apparatus.
It is a prime lens not optical zoom. But ofc it’s easier to spread that marketing bs. Why not 10x? like apple said in on of the documents, sounds much cooler isn’t it? It’s just a question to put the wide lens as the base.
“Optical zoom”
This suggests that they’re building an actual zoom lens into the phone. There’s NO WAY that’s accurate. A zoom lens has moving parts.
What Apple is using is a telephoto, fixed prime. Not a zoom lens.
And on that point, 5x is useless garbage. The ultra wide is the most useful lens on the phone and the 2x produces the best quality images. They should drop the telephoto and give us three primes: a 16mm, a 23mm and a 50mm.
This suggests that they’re building an actual zoom lens into the phone. There’s NO WAY that’s accurate. A zoom lens has moving parts.
What Apple is using is a telephoto, fixed prime. Not a zoom lens.
And on that point, 5x is useless garbage. The ultra wide is the most useful lens on the phone and the 2x produces the best quality images. They should drop the telephoto and give us three primes: a 16mm, a 23mm and a 50mm.
This would mean I need to get up and walk to the subject at hand to get it in the right frame. Apart from all the extra energy this will take me and thus increase CO2 emission worldwide (we need carbon neutrality!) the subject will often be long gone. Just give me the 5x on the regular Pro.
Hogwash. A 50mm prime will get you plenty close. The 5x lens is an illusion. It produces poor quality images. It’s a marketing gimmick more than it is a legitimate photographic tool.
These protruding lenses are bad engineering. If they can't make the lenses shorter, they should make the battery thicker and increase the battery life. I am a photographer and would never put the lenses on the table unprotected.
As long as they don't have a solution for this (a functionless case is not a solution for me), I won't buy another iPhone.
As long as they don't have a solution for this (a functionless case is not a solution for me), I won't buy another iPhone.
Man, the more I read about iphones these days, the less interested I am.
I know people will continue to love them and they'll continue to make record-breaking profits but surely there is a limit to the yearly increases in size. I mean how much bigger can they get? How much larger will the camera bump get?
I'm convinced that by the time we get to iphone 20, you'll be better off trying to cram a macbook in your pocket
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I know people will continue to love them and they'll continue to make record-breaking profits but surely there is a limit to the yearly increases in size. I mean how much bigger can they get? How much larger will the camera bump get?
I'm convinced that by the time we get to iphone 20, you'll be better off trying to cram a macbook in your pocket
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No you dont. You want a brick with more lenses and an even BIGGER screen. They simply aren't big enough.
id be more than happy with the current tech, but in a lighter and not quite so bulky frame. Surely they can't continue to make them bigger year after year?
yeah cool story apple. 99% of people just want more battery life, not another bloated camera upgrade. They are already more than enough.
Unpopular opinion: I'd happily fully drop the zoom telephoto lens (which I never use) and end up with a cheaper device. And no, I don't want the non-pro model.
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The external clear windows that you see are made of sapphire, which are very hard and difficult to scratch. (Sapphire is also popular for wristwatch crystals). The actual ‘lenses’ are behind the window and protected. The angle generated by the raised sides of the assemblies adds an additional feature to save the sapphire windows touching any surfaces.
Sure, but they’re comparing between devices marked Pro, so presumably that’s between Pro and Pro Max. The earliest camera distinction between those two lines I think started at iPhone 12 generation.
The Pro and Pro Max lines didn’t come out until iPhone 11. Before that was iPhone XS vs XS Max