The super-sized flagship battle begins The Xiaomi 14 Ultra uses the technology that has been waiting for three years

I believe that the two new flagship chips, Dimensity 9300 and Snapdragon 8 Gen3, have left a deep impression on the majority of users, right?

For example, there is a high probability that the first "black factory" OPPO, as its true flagship, will use a new 1-inch sensor Sony LYT-900, and the top Ultra products will also use a rare double periscope structure. Once the same brother will also use the 200 million pixel periscope on the X100 super cup, which has filled the expectations of countless netizens, as for Xiaomi, it is rumored that the material is more ruthless on the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, and even a little bit of "black technology".

Xiaomi is the first to land domestic continuous optical zoom?

Compared with manufacturers that have begun to warm up,In fact, there has not been much movement on Xiaomi's side,When the majority of rice fans are looking forward to Xiaomi's super-large cup news,Just a few days ago, there were relevant bloggers who broke out,Xiaomi used to deal with the double periscope of friends and 200 million pixels periscope flagship's program,It is continuous optical zoom,If nothing else,This set of plans is likely to be on this year's Xiaomi 14 Ultra,Meet with the majority of users。

And according to the blogger's description,This zoom is still 2.6 times to 5 times the zoom,First give a little science popularization to friends who don't understand,Today's mobile phone shooting,Although zoom can be realized,But it is achieved through fixed focal length switching,This set of modules in the rear,In fact, it is the so-called fixed focus lens,Even if it is a sliding zoom experience on the mobile phone,It is only a product obtained after cropping and algorithm optimization,Whether it is the experience or the final image quality,In fact, there is still a certain distance from the real optical zoom lens on the camera。

So if you want to achieve real continuous optical zoom on your mobile phone, you still need to put in a certain amount of effort, and Xiaomi's continuous zoom scheme is not a whim, in fact, as early as 2020, Xiaomi applied for a patent for continuous optical zoom, judging from the patent description, the zoom control switch is used to send out a signal for lens expansion and contraction, and the stepless zoom adjustment is realized, and the overall idea is still no problem.

But in the three years since the patent application was passed, in fact, Xiaomi has not implemented this technology for a long time, which makes the rice fans who pay attention to this a little disappointed. But we can also understand that in the face of the fact that the lens module of mobile phones is getting larger and larger, the continuous zoom module may also need a motor to promote more lens lenses, which is a contradiction with the lens module that cannot be miniaturized, so mobile phone manufacturers are waiting for the miniaturization of the lens.

In fact, it's not just Xiaomi,As early as 2021year,OPPO announced its own continuous optical zoom technology at its own imaging technology conference,Judging from the results announced at the time,OPPOThe solution even directly covers85to200mmFocal length,A little stronger than Xiaomi's set。

OPPO's solution also adopts a new structure and sensor to make continuous zoom more silky and reduce problems such as jumps, color distortion, and white balance shifts. Of course, no matter how hard it blows, we have all seen that OPPO has not landed this technology for a long time, but has made consumers wait for two or three years.

Continuous light variation may be the direction of the next "volume".

During this period, there are still manufacturers who have made real continuous optical zoom land, that is, Sony, which has achieved 85 to 125mm, that is, 3.5x to 5.2x optical zoom for the first time on its own Xperia 1 IV. When it was first released, not only fans, but even enthusiasts all over the world were attracted by it, but unfortunately the light changed and the light changed, but the experience was not as good as we imagined.

The reason is still Xperia 1 IV This continuous light change telephoto,It's always just a small bottom,Only 1/3.5 inch,The maximum aperture is only F2.3,This makes it okay to use during the day,Once it's at night,This picture quality is not enough to see,This kind of performance is obviously not satisfactory to users,So the domestic super large cup flagships,To be on is also the most advanced and easy-to-use technology。

Fortunately, in the three years since Xiaomi's patent was passed, many supply chain manufacturers have made efforts in this regard, such as our domestic OFILM, which released an optical zoom module with a thickness of only 5.9mm in the early years, and then it made a large zoom lens that can achieve 10 times the light change, which can already reach a considerable level.

Of course, even if the continuous light change module is small, it must not be compared with the fixed focus lens module, in today's mobile phone internal space is expensive, how to stuff it into the mobile phone, it is also a very challenging thing, it depends on how manufacturers can optimize the internal space.

Anyway,If the mobile phone uses a continuous optical zoom lens, it is still quite worth looking forward to,After all, whether it is high pixels or periscope,It is basically a pile of materials on the old technology in the past,The technical content is definitely not as good as this continuous optical zoom lens,If Xiaomi can take the lead in 14 Ultra to land this technology,Then the telephoto on the mobile phone will definitely "roll" to a new height in the future。