Apple’s first periscopic telephoto lens expected this year should be reserved for the most premium model, the iPhone 15 Pro Max which could be renamed iPhone 15 Ultra to better reflect the differences in technical sheet with its little brother. The indiscretion first blown by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from last year has since been confirmed by Jeff Pu and now by the Korean site The Elecwhich specifies that this situation would only be temporary: the 6.1 “iPhone 16 Pro would receive a periscopic telephoto lens in 2024.
A periscopic zoom designed by OPPO
A periscopic telephoto lens has the particularity of having a prism to redirect the light horizontally within the phone: there is no longer any depth constraint, which makes it possible to offer much greater zoom levels than with a classic telephoto lens. Today limited to 3x on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, the zoom of the iPhone 15 Ultra could climb to 5x or 6x according to Ming-Chi Kuo. Meanwhile, the classic iPhone 15 could gain a 2x optical zoom for the first time thanks to the inclusion of a 48-megapixel sensor.
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