iPhone 15 Pro Max periscope camera specs
- 12MP, 5.0x optical zoom, 120mm, ƒ/2.8, OIS
The 5.0x optical zoom camera on the iPhone 15 Pro Max clocks in at 12MP. Apple has used a tetraprism, a folded glass structure below the lens, which reflects light rays four times over. This allows light to travel for longer in the same space before hitting the 12MP camera sensor, which enables the longer focal length.
Though it maxes out at 5 times optically, the iPhone 15 Pro Max can deliver up to 25x of total zoom. Yet, that’s just a quarter of the potential zoom that the Galaxy S23 Ultra can deliver, as Samsung’s best phone so far maxes out at 100x. That’s the furthest-zooming phone on the US market.
Taking zoomed-in photos is usually associated with undesired camera shakes and jitters that can easily lead to blurry and unclear photos, however grasp your hold may be. That’s why the periscope lens on the iPhone 15 Pro Max is outfitted with a new 3D sensor‑shift optical image stabilization that is reportedly capable of up to 10,000 micro-adjustments every second, promising jitter-free photos devoid of any signs of motion blur.
Galaxy S23 Ultra camera specs
- 10MP 3.0x optical zoom, 69mm, 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, ƒ/2.4, PDAF, OIS
- 10MP 10.0x optical zoom, 230mm, 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, ƒ/4.9, PDAF, OIS
Once you venture past the 10x optical zoom setting inside the camera app, the image quality regresses, so anything past the 10x mode is discouraged.
Aside from the 10x optical zoom lens, the big novelty with the Galaxy S23 Ultra is its new awe-inspiring 200MP main camera. Of course, as most high-megapixel phones out there, the Galaxy S23 Ultra uses pixel-binning to combine sixteen pixels into one and deliver photos with less noise and better low-light sensitivity.
We can’t wait to test out how the new periscope camera on the iPhone 15 Pro Max and how it compares against the Galaxy S23 Ultra‘s periscope camera.
