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Periscope camera phones may be new, but they use a system that has been around for a while. A periscope is an optical instrument that uses a system of lenses, mirrors, or prisms to reflect images through a tube. The result is that better camera zooming can be achieved.
In camera phones, a periscope lens achieves the same thing, making optical zooming possible on mobile devices. The difference between digital and optical zoom is that the former is in-camera image processing, while the latter is true zoom – using a system of lenses, instead of software processing.
In terms of photo quality, the difference is huge: optical zoom produces much better results than digital zoom. Before periscope lenses appeared in mobile phones, optical zoom higher than 2x was impossible, but now, we have periscope camera phones providing up to 10x optical zooming. A combination of optical and digital zoom makes up to 100x hybrid zoom possible on some periscope camera lenses.
We have also included a list of some of the latest and best periscope camera phones in the market in 2023 at the end of this article.
- How does periscope optical zoom camera work?
- Huawei periscope camera phone
- Samsung periscope camera phone
- OPPO periscope camera phone
- Are there any other periscope camera phones?
- Periscope Camera Phone List 2023
How does periscope optical zoom camera work?
When you zoom with a periscope camera, an external lens captures an image, bounces it off a mirror, and sends the image via another lens to the camera’s sensor. This sytem allows for serious zooming capabilities to be built into today’s thin smartphones.
Huawei periscope camera phone
Huawei has been a leader in the release of smartphones with a periscope . The success stories of its P-series phones will be incomplete without a mention of periscope optical zoom. Huawei P30 Pro set the ball rolling and was the top camera phone of its time, winning several awards, including EISA BEst Smartphone for 2019-2020 . Its successor, Huawei P40 Pro , will feature a periscope camera as well.
Huawei P40 Pro PE – Premium Edition – has a periscope lens camera
Samsung periscope camera phone
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra made a splash in 2020 with its 108MP quad camera, but that is not the whole story. In the camera setup is a periscope lens as well, making optical zoom possible on the device.
The S20 Ultra offers 4x optical zoom, along with “100x Space Zoom”. Don’t get too excited about the latter, as it is fancy branding for digital zoom. The ace is the optical zoom.
OPPO periscope camera phone
OPPO Find X2 Pro was announced in March 2020 and immediately shot to the limelight and the top of camera phone rankings, thanks to its 64MP triple camera. That camera includes a periscope lens that provides 5x optical zoom and hit the top of DXMark’s rankings [1]. Another smartphone with a periscope camera lens had stolen the show.
Are there any other periscope camera phones?
As at 2020, there were a handful of other periscope zoom phones announced, released, or are in the works. These included: vivo APEX 2020 and OPPO Reno2 5G, among others, at the time. More phone makers have since then embraced the technology and release smartphones with periscope camera lenses.
Should you get one? If zooming is important to you and you want to get the best possible images when you zoom on your smartphone, you should. Optical zoom is so much better than digital zoom that there is no contest: a camera phone with a periscope lens is what you need if zooming is important to you. As always, the best camera technology is found on the most expensive smartphones. That means, keep your eyes out for new premium flagship phones.
Eventually, the technology will become more affordable and filter down to mid-rangers, but that will take a while. For now, premium phones like Huawei Mate 60 Pro+, Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, OPPO Find X6 Pro, and Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max and their competitors are all you have got to pick from. The creme-de-la-creme.
The iPhone 15 is what a modern handset looks like
Periscope Camera Phone List 2023
Listed below are some of the latest persicooe camera phones available to buy in 2023.
- Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
- Xiaomi 13 Ultra
- Huawei Mate 60 Pro+
- OPPO Find X6 Pro
- NIO Phone
- ZTE Nubia Z50 Ultra
- Huawei P60
- OPPO Find X6
- Huawei Mate 60
References
- OPPO Find X2 Pro camera review: LINK .
Author:InfoDesk
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Google brought a number of interesting changes to Lens last year at its I/O conference by transforming your phone’s camera into a search tool. This feature could let you highlight and translate menu items and popular dishes at restaurants by merely pointing your camera at the restaurant menu.
Google have taken things a step further by enhancing this feature to also include menu photos taken by other restaurant customers. To have a feel of this, search for restaurants in Maps, Google will bring a list of restaurants in your locality with a menu overlay. You can click on this and pictures taken by customers of the restaurant with a chip labeled “explore dishes” will be displayed. Clicking on this brings up Google lens, which shows a list of dishes obtained from customers’ reviews.
Clicking on a given item will display the dish, with pictures taken by other customers. You may then decide to use Google Translate to display it in your native language if it is in a foreign one.
It is interesting to see how Google have coordinated the features of Lens, Maps and Translate to work well together.
This new feature dubbed the “explore dishes” feature started rolling out to Android devices on Sunday, and should be available to a number of other devices like iOS in due time.
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Author:Alfa Baye
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