January 4 news, according to foreign media MacRumors reported that analyst Jeff Pu predicted that apple in 2023 launch of the iPhone 15 series, at least one model will be equipped with a periscope camera system, bringing a higher magnification zoom capability, perhaps to achieve the same 10 times optical zoom performance of Samsung S21U and Huawei P40 Pro.
Apple Track statistics show that Jeff Pu has achieved an accuracy of 62.5% in the past 13 revelations, which is slightly lower than that of Bloomberg's Mark Gullman or analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. However, Guo Mingji has also predicted that the iPhone 15 series may be equipped with a periscope telephoto lens. Therefore, the above message should be relatively reliable.
In recent years, Apple has been enhancing the imaging capabilities of the iPhone, and some functions have gradually aligned with Android, such as night mode. The iPhone 15 is equipped with a periscope telephoto lens that enhances its zoom camera capabilities, allowing the phone to shoot richer and more diverse content, which is very helpful for photo or video creation.
At present, the iPhone 13 Pro only supports 3x optical zoom, but Apple has applied it well to video shooting mode, but it has obtained a fairly good shooting experience. If the iPhone 15 can introduce a periscope telephoto system, it will allow users to further enlarge the image without blurring. With Apple's powerful algorithm optimization, the imaging strength of the iPhone 15 series may be epic.
Periscope telephoto lenses are not a new technology, Huawei has been equipped with this technology on the P30 series released in 2019, and brings 10 times optical zoom, 30 times digital zoom and 50 times hybrid zoom, which is evaluated by netizens as a telescope in the pocket. There have been rumors on the Internet that Apple will also use the technology, but after three full years, it has not been used.
Nowadays, Huawei, Samsung, OPPO, etc. have launched models equipped with periscope telephoto lenses, especially the Huawei P40 Pro+ and Samsung S21U, which have piled the zoom ability to a terrifying 100 times hybrid zoom, although the imaging effect is not ideal, but also brings a lot of playability.
If Apple really wants to use a periscope common lens, it will inevitably not pursue a less practical 100 times zoom, but the imaging quality and experience of low-power zoom should be quite good, or very worth looking forward to, I hope apple can really carry forward this technology.