So there you have it. The periscope lens: a clever, deceptively simple invention to get big zoom out of a small device, but not without drawbacks when deployed in a camera phone.

The tetraprism is basically a periscope, or a way to bend light multiple times through glass, which is a tool other phone makers have used in their cameras since 2017 to bring faraway subjects ...

We've been waiting some time for the iPhone 15 periscope camera. There have been rumors going all the way back to early 2021 that this was the year we'd get an iPhone zoom camera to significantly ...

No guarantee we’ll see it Ultimately, Huawei wants to create a thin phone with a periscope camera. This patent could allow them to do that. That being said, note that this is only a patent.

Periscope No. 2 is a 6x telephoto with a 50 MP, 1/2.51-inch Sony IMX858 sensor—so more zoom, but less image quality. The main camera is Sony's top-of-the-line LYT-900 1-inch sensor, and the wide ...

The 200-megapixel 4.3x periscopic lens follows similar periscopes in Vivo’s X100 Ultra and X200 Pro, and Honor’s Magic 7 Pro. This is a shorter zoom than the 5x periscope on the 14 Ultra, but ...

Xiaomi’s CEO, Lei Jun, has decided to share the very first photo taken with the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s 200MP periscope telephoto camera. That upcoming flagship smartphone is getting a camera bump ...