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The Galaxy S20 Ultra has a periscope camera (Image credit: Future) If it isn't on an iPhone, does it even matter?

Sony, Vivo, and Xiaomi all brought their own periscope zoom smartphones to the market soon after, and Apple… well, Apple did what Apple does.

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Just a month after Oppo's announcement, Huawei unveiled the excellent P30 Pro in Paris, then Oppo launched the Reno 10X Zoom, after which Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 Ultra. This thickness/telephoto reach problem seemed insurmountable until February 2019, when Oppo, a relative unknown in Western markets, announced its first periscope camera module, which was showcased on a concept device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.īy creating a mini submarine-like periscope in the chassis of your smartphone with a prism, Oppo extended the distance between the lens and the camera sensor, bouncing light and creating a magnification of roughly five times that of the main camera. And while thick thighs may save lives, thick phones definitely don't sell well. This is okay for a short telephoto, as found on iPhones and OnePlus flagships, however, for more than a two or three times magnification, smartphones would need to be very thick. So if greater distance equates to more reach, a powerful zoom on a smartphone needs a lens that's far away from its corresponding sensor – making for a thick camera. This logic is kind of like a telescope – extend the telescope > increase the distance between the lens and your eye > see further into the distance. The further a camera lens is from the sensor, the further the reach of the camera or the more 'telephoto' it is. The camera setup on the P30 Pro, including a periscope cam (Image credit: Huawei) Zoom lenses and periscope cameras But before diving into periscope zoom tech, we need to understand how zoom lenses work. It's almost time to talk about 2019 – the year of the periscope camera. Okay, we're done with camera zoom terminology 101.

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Why does optical zoom deliver more detail? Because the zoomed image is captured by the whole sensor – so while a 12MP three times digital zoom image would be reduced to about 4MP, a 12MP three times optical zoom image would be a full 12MP. Using optics (hence the name), your camera lens magnifies the image that lands on its sensor. The second type of zoom – optical zoom – is widely seen as better. Generally speaking, therefore, digital zoom is the less desirable type of zoom. A 12MP photo, for example, would turn into a 3MP photo if you digitally zoomed or cropped into it, thereby degrading quality.

Naturally, the more you crop, the lower the quality of the photo you end up with. Both are of course options for the tech giant, but it is likely not a choice the company was expecting to have to make.As a result, even if the zoom feature wasn't available in the camera, you could emulate a digital zoom by simply cropping a photo.

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“Faced with this issue, Apple will either have to change its entire design to avoid using the patented technology or will have to pay Samsung a fee to license the rights to the patent. Unfortunately for Apple, Samsung - who has a technical lead on the technology over Apple - holds that patent.” Apple wants to use a ball actuator to move the lens barrel, which is in contrast to the spring actuator that it currently uses on its iPhones. “There are varying ways to construct a periscope lens especially when it comes to how a company moves the lens’s barrel. I wouldn't call it a periscope lens module, I'd simply call it a miniature telephoto lens, something that every camera maker has built. So, Samsung owns patents on a camera system and our stupid USPTO and corrupt courts in Texas will keep other companies from creating a similar camera system, something that was designed a couple centuries ago.