When the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max arrived, there was one main distinction between the 2 fashions aside from measurement and worth—the digital camera with the telephoto lens. A brand new report says that the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max will return to the photographic uniformity of earlier fashions with a 5x zoom equal on each fashions.
At the moment, in order for you the extra highly effective telephoto zoom, you want the iPhone 15 Professional Max. The iPhone 15 Professional has a 3x zoom equal in comparison with the primary lens.
I requested Apple why this disparity had come about and was advised unequivocally that it was right down to measurement: the smaller iPhone 15 Professional didn’t bodily have the scale for the larger zoom.
Because the subsequent Professional fashions are reported to be barely larger (the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are anticipated to match present sizes), there could also be sufficient room for that 5x zoom.
And it seems to be like Apple will take the chance to incorporate it, in keeping with a brand new provider report in DigiTimes. “Largan provided periscope lenses for the premium iPhone 15 Professional Max launched final 12 months. This 12 months, extra fashions within the upcoming iPhone lineup will function periscope lenses. GSEO is prone to be a part of as a brand new provider for this 12 months’s iPhones,” the report claims.
This isn’t the primary rumor to this impact, with a earlier report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from TFI Securities suggesting in October 2023 that the 16 Professional would have the tetraprism—Apple’s identify for its periscope lens which is so skilfully designed that, in contrast to different periscope lenses, it seems to be near-identical to the opposite lenses. Solely Apple would go to this stage of aesthetic element.
Two swallows don’t make a summer time and two rumors don’t equate to truth, however they’re definitely getting into the correct path.
It might make a whole lot of sense for Apple to incorporate the 5x zoom if it may: it’s a extremely efficient function and plenty of iPhone 15 Professional customers would have wished it, however demurred on the manner the Max cellphone stretches your pocket (bodily and financially).
Whereas the distinction between the cameras on the Professional and Professional Max within the present technology isn’t the primary time bigger iPhones have had higher cameras, making the 2 match on this regard is the higher approach to go, I’d say, and I imagine Apple feels that manner, too.