iPhone 14 Pro When will the camera length go back to normal?

[MrMiyagi1]

When I mean normal I mean like similar to the iPhone 12 models. Are we going to see the camera lengths getting bigger and bigger each year a new iPhone is launched. Do you guys think this will be the new normal?

Or do you feel that technology will get better and the camera lenses will be flush again and not stick out like a sore thumb.

I mean I have my iPhone 12 Pro and use the phone without no case only screen protector. However checking the iPhone 14 pro in store today I just cannot see myself upgrading.

Sure I know some folks will love the new camera and it does not bother them and they are happy with how it is. Which is cool. I am probably in the minority here when it comes to these type of things.

However I really hope in the future the camera lenses will go back to how they were before. As right now I really do not see myself upgrading unless it’s a feature I really need on a new phone.

I have Apple care plus so I know am good for this phone I am on for a while anyway even with a few years of iOS updates, maybe then we will get the camera lense problem sorted out with technology advances.

Anyways just wanted to air out my thoughts here. Have a good day all 😊

 

[adamgbiggs]

I’ll gladly take a thicker phone (cam bump) to get better quality photos, having had phones for over half my life (I’m 40) and some of the phones were 25mm or thicker, these phones these days are very very slim (even the cam bumps).

 

[JPack]

About as likely as Apple going back to 4” displays. The distinct “camera plateau” as Apple calls is, part of what sells iPhone.

 

[Jackbequickly]

There are law of physics involved here and the bump is here to stay unless they want to increase the thickness of the entire phone. That will never happen as Apple is so consumed with having thin devices. We do have a longer zoom coming via a periscope type configuration. Maybe on the iPhone Ultra!

 

[whizkid11]

Nano technology will allow for smaller parts doing the same thing. There’s absolute no way these cameras are going to get infinitely larger. If anything, it will plateau size wise and likely reverse.

 

[1096bimu]

Nano technology will allow for smaller parts doing the same thing. There’s absolute no way these cameras are going to get infinitely larger. If anything, it will plateau size wise and likely reverse.

what nanotechnology exactly....

 

[whizkid11]

what nanotechnology exactly....

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume.

www.nanowerk.com

 

[T5BRICK]

Just get a thicker case. I’ll take the camera bump any day. I appreciate the functional improvements over the previous cameras.

 

[Rafterman]

It's not just tech, it's physics. Certain capabilities need certain focal lengths to achieve, especially zoom.

 

[JPack]

Physics, reliability, manufacturability, scaling, cost. Just like we've heard a million claims about battery breakthroughs, but there's also a million hurdles to jump through.

 

[fatTribble]

I wasn’t clear from your original post what the problem is with the camera sticking out. Does it cause a problem for you or you just don’t like it? I never think about it.

 

[edhchoe]

When we capture another alien and steal their technology we will have thinner and lighter phones that perform better.
With so many UFO sighting nowadays all over the world, it should happen any day now.

 

[JM]

About as likely as Apple going back to 4” displays. The distinct “camera plateau” as Apple calls is, part of what sells iPhone.

Camera plateau? Interesting. Was it a keynote they called it that?

Not a bad name.

 

[JPack]

Camera plateau? Interesting. Was it a keynote they called it that?

Not a bad name.

Apple refers to it in their Accessory Design Guidelines.

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/Accessory-Design-Guidelines.pdf

 

[1096bimu]

Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume.

www.nanowerk.com

So? a bigger camera made with this same technology will just produce even better images.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

Let's see what they do with the Periscope lens concept first.

I've always been intrigued by the liquid lens camera tech:

What is a liquid lens? The tech that could revolutionize phone cameras explained

Find out how liquid lenses use fluid to focus faster

www.techradar.com

Liquid lens smartphone cameras represent generational leap

Huawei’s upcoming P50 may be the first smartphone to bring liquid lenses to market, a revolutionary technology two decades in the making...

mobile-magazine.com

The First Smartphone to Use a Liquid Lens is the Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold

It's not the only camera on the Mi Mix Fold/

petapixel.com

 

[whizkid11]

So? a bigger camera made with this same technology will just produce even better images.

So? A smaller camera with the same technology will produce as great of photos without the added bulk.