Periscope camera lenses are usually used to provide optical zoom ranging from 3x to as much as 10x, further opening up digital zoom (i.e., cropping) for up to 120x on certain smartphones. In ...

With a periscope lens, you instead take a conventional lens, but rotate it and the image sensor through 90 degrees so both are directed side to side within the phone body, rather than front to back.

With periscope lenses being a rather newer concept — early examples, such as Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra, launched in 2019 — it's important to note that optical zoom in smartphones isn't their ...

The road to mobile zoom Even though Samsung was trying to make telescoping zoom lenses a thing in 2013, the periscope mobile camera had already been released and quietly forgotten 9 years prior ...

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max model will be the only next-gen iPhone to receive a periscope zoom lens, according to Twitter user @Redditor. This corroborates existing claims that suggest the same ...

This vertically aligned lens boosts optical zoom, and debuted on the iPhone 15 Pro Max The iPhone 15 Pro Max includes a periscope lens, a feature that allows phone cameras to offer high levels of ...

The telephoto lens on the iPhone 13 Pro models only offers 3x optical zoom and 15x digital zoom. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra features a periscope lens.

Xiaomi 16 Pro may feature a Samsung JN5 periscope lens with macro mode, but it might downgrade sensor size from the 15 Pro.

Recent rumours indicate that only the larger iPhone 15 Pro Max will receive a periscope lens this fall, with the smaller iPhone 15 Pro getting left behind. Now, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the ...

The term periscope refers to a mechanism that allows for a folding lens. That gives iPhones a greatly increased optical zoom while not needing a thicker phone.