Apple would have placed an order with a Chinese supplier to integrate periscopic telephoto lenses for the iPhones of 2023. Enough to allow, on paper, x5 or even x10 optical zoom.
In 2017, Apple unveiled its iPhone X. If it was the first smartphone from the manufacturer to benefit from an edge-to-edge screen thanks to the integration of a notch, it was not the only innovation brought by the American brand. The iPhone X was also the first smartphone from Apple to benefit from a telephoto lens on the back, ideal for taking portrait mode shots with a 52mm equivalent focal length.
Since then, Apple has continued to offer telephoto lenses on its most high-end smartphones, also increasing the proposed focal length and zoom. On the last iPhone 13 Pro et 13 Pro Max, we thus find cameras associated with a telephoto lens equivalent to 77 mm, thus allowing a zoom x3 compared to the main camera of 26 mm. Nevertheless, for three years, Apple’s competitors have renewed their ingenuity to offer ever longer focal lengths. At the house of Huawei, Samsung or Oppothere are now cameras with lenses allowing x5 or x10 optical zooms, with digital zooms that can go up to x100.
Aware of the accumulated delay on telephoto lenses, Apple would however seek to improve its zoom as reported The Elec. The Korean site, generally very well informed regarding the industry, indicates that Apple would consider providing new optical stabilization modules from Jahwa for next year’s iPhones. These modules would make it possible both to stabilize a camera lens, but also to manage its autofocus. Especially, as indicated MacRumorsHe should “likely to be designed for the 2023 iPhone telephoto camera”.
Stabilization necessary for very long focal lengths
It is indeed already the Chinese supplier Jahwa which equips the range Samsung Galaxy S22 optical stabilization actuators. However, the need for optical stabilization is reinforced in the case of long-distance shooting, with a long focal length. Indeed, in this type of case, the slightest micro-movement can have implications on the tracking of the subject in both photo and video.
It should also be remembered that the Chinese analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, generally well informed regarding Apple’s projects, has been counting for almost two years on the arrival of a periscope zoom on iPhones. A function that might well see the light of day in 2023. However, if conventional lenses are sufficient for zooms up to x3, it is indeed in the case of x5 or even x10 zoom that the need is felt. a periscopic system under the chassis of the smartphone.
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