TL;DR
- An Apple analyst claims the iPhone 16 Professional will get a “tetraprism” zoom lens.
- Apple introduced the tetraprism zoom lens as an unique to the iPhone 15 Professional Max.
- The brand new lens will deliver the Professional and Professional Max nearer consistent with one another.
It’s not unusual for Apple to present its Professional fashions a characteristic — like Dynamic Island — and have it go to the bottom and Plus fashions a 12 months later. It’s rather less widespread, nevertheless, for a Professional Max-exclusive characteristic to trickle all the way down to the Professional mannequin. However it appears to be like like that may very well be the case with the “tetraprism” zoom lens within the iPhone 15 Professional Max.
Throughout Apple’s “Wonderlust” occasion, the corporate introduced that the iPhone 15 Professional Max would get what Apple calls a tetraprism zoom lens. This zoom lens is designed to imitate the outcomes you’d get from a 120mm lens of a full-frame digital camera and is getting used for the Professional Max’s 5x telephoto digital camera.
Right here’s how Apple’s Misha Scepanovic describes how the lens works:
120-millimeter lenses are usually lengthy, so as a substitute we created an revolutionary tetraprism design, constructed proper into iPhone. The sunshine rays are mirrored 4 occasions by way of the glass construction, permitting the sunshine to journey for longer in a a lot smaller design. This creates sufficient separation between the lens and the sensor to allow the longer focal size.
Based on Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, this lens gained’t keep a Professional Max unique for lengthy. Kuo states that each the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max will characteristic tetraprism telephoto cameras.
If the iPhone 16 Professional does get a tetraprism telephoto lens, the handset will likely be that a lot nearer to the Professional Max subsequent 12 months. However nothing says Apple gained’t simply discover one other manner to assist differentiate the Professional Max from the Professional. The iPhone 15 collection is accessible for pre-order now, however gained’t hit retailer cabinets till September 22.
