The iPhone 15 Pro Max’s triple-lens rear camera system will be redesigned by Apple to make room for the new periscope camera technology, which will be unique to the larger phone.
For the first time this year, the telephoto camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max will use a periscope lens system, enabling 5x or 6x optical zoom. In contrast, the iPhone 14 Pro Max has a 3x optical zoom feature, which is anticipated to be maintained for the iPhone 15 Pro.
Due to the advanced hardware, Apple is probably only including the periscope technology in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. However, despite the Pro Max model’s additional space, Apple was still forced to rearrange the camera module’s structure.
The Ultra Wide lens is located below the flash and LiDAR sensor on the current iPhone 14 Pro Max when it is held in landscape orientation with the Side button at the top (as shown in the above image). The Telephoto lens is located closest to the top corner of the device.
As opposed to this, the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s telephoto lens will be placed in the middle of the array, while the ultra-wide lens will be in the corner closest to the flash. The complex folded optics in the periscope system can now be fitted inside Apple with more internal room thanks to this.
A periscope lens system typically employs a primary lens to take the picture, with an angled mirror or prism reflecting the light 90 degrees in the direction of a secondary lens, which then transmits it to the image sensor. In order to increase focal length, the smartphone’s image sensor and secondary lens are mounted sideways, which consumes valuable surface area.
The actual telephoto lens will probably need to be square-shaped, a change from the circular telephoto lens used for the iPhone 14 Pro Max because of the way light is reflected at an angle in this system. The actual lens inside the camera will be square, despite the fact that the camera cutout will still be circular.
In this way, the next-generation model will appear from the outside to have no differences in the lens array from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, but the hardware layout will be very different.
The noteworthy nugget was disclosed by researcher Unknownz21, who yesterday confirmed that both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will get the periscope zoom camera technology in 2019, a change that was initially revealed by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models are anticipated to have displays that are slightly larger than those of previous generations, and the increased internal space provided by the new sizes is probably one of the factors that will allow Apple to introduce the periscope lens to both premium devices for the first time in 2024.
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Source: macrumors
