“At least one new iPhone with a triple-lens rear camera led by a 12-megapixel lens may be introduced in 2019, according to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“The report predicts the camera would have a 6P lens design with 5x zoom, but it doesn’t specify whether that pertains to optical, digital, or hybrid zoom,” Rossignol reports “The single-lens iPhone 8 has up to 5x digital zoom, while the dual-lens iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X have up to 2x optical zoom and 10x digital zoom.”
“A three-lens rear camera would provide a lot of advantages, including greatly improved low-light performance,” Rossignol reports. “As far as this year is concerned, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo doesn’t expect many changes to the iPhone X’s current dual-lens rear camera system.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Even better low-light performance and greater zoom capabilities than our already excellent iPhone X units? Bring it on!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Sounds impressive, when executed cleverly it will road kill some normal camera market
Digital zoom is largely useless. Move on from that non-feature. Only optical focal length zoom or fixed long lens counts.
True with normal cameras; We are talking Apple not Canon. Perhaps Apple has some algorithm that overcomes digital zoom image degradation.
The original resolution is captured in the number of pixels used taking the pic and no amount of up-resing algorithms will add resolution unfortunately.
This “news” is just a distraction, probably intended to divert attention away from 2018 phones, which are closer to reality.
Wake me up in a year’s time….
Set your iWatch to one year.
Skip Triple, lets go quadruple…