Apple Again Rumored to Bring 5x Telephoto Camera to iPhone 16 Pro Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 Pro will gain the tetraprism periscope camera with 5x optical zoom that debuted last year on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, DigiTimes reports. Taiwanese lens manufacturers Largan Precision and Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) are said to be the primary suppliers for the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌’s tetraprism camera components. Sources …

iPhone 16 Pro Again Rumored to Include Tetraprism Telephoto Lens With 5X Optical Zoom Both the iPhone 16 Pro and ‌iPhone 16‌ Pro Max will include Apple’s tetraprism Telephoto lens with improved zoom capabilities, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reiterated today. Apple introduced a new tetraprism lens system for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, enabling 5x optical zoom for the first time. The camera technology was not added to the ‌iPhone 15 Pr…

how do you feel S24 ultra will be going from 10x optical to go down to 5x sensor size is set to be 2.52 at 50MP. It seems longer range zoom will certainly suffer. aperture will be worse than both pixel 8 pro and 15 pro max. submitted by /u/sportsfan161

Confirm my understanding about the difficulty of using high magnification (2x or 5x) macro lenses, and another general macro question? It is my understanding that if a macro lens has 1x magnification, that means that the object will cast a 1x life-sized image on to the image sensor (meaning the object on the resulting picture is huge) when the lens is at the minimum focal distance. I also hear that 2x macro lenses will be quite difficult to use due to razor thin depth of field,…

Anyone else excited for Samsung to move back to a 5x Periscope or is it just me? Hearing mixed opinions and I wanted to make a post to voice mine. Currently on an S23 Ultra but had a Pixel 7 Pro previously. I miss its 5x Tele, it was extremely versatile. Human portraits? Sure. Zoom? Sure. Close ups of objects with nice natural bokeh? Absolutely. It just lets you do everything without limiting you to a very far crop where yo…

Apple Explains Why iPhone 15 Pro Max is Limited to 5x Optical Zoom In an interview with Numerama’s Nicolas Lellouche, Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack explained why the iPhone 15 Pro Max’s tetraprism lens system is limited to 5x optical zoom, instead of 10x like on Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra. The interview is in French, so quotes below are computer translated. Apple says the Telephoto le…

Purchased a house with an HOA 5 years ago, I hate the HOA and it’s now worth 2.5x the purchase price. Should I sell and buy somewhere cheaper or invest in something else? Hi I don’t know anything about investing, I have a Roth IRA and my house, which is in a hot market where prices have skyrocketed over the last two years. I don’t like having an HOA and don’t need to live anywhere in particular so the only drawback to selling my house is that if I wanted to move back to this area at some point, I would have to pa…