Weekly poll: are periscope cameras the future of smartphones?
- Bionic Chip
- srA
- 03 Oct 2022
Periscope allows the smartphone's body to accommodate a longer or bigger lens setup.
Periscope setup is the future if it comes with a TRUE zoom lens like that of the Sony 1 IV and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.
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- Anonymous
- 3J9
- 20 Mar 2019
Everyone needs ti focus on zoom and lowlight like Huawei
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- Tooluka
- gDs
- 18 Mar 2019
moon, 18 Mar 2019I suggest that you shall have to learn first the difference... moreI suggest that you read that too. Because optical zoom is not some magical tech without drawbacks to image quality, despite whatever b/s phone marketing departments try to push.
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- Anonymous
- ajb
- 18 Mar 2019
how small a sensor can be to be placed in a phone a few millimeters thick and still deliver a good photo?
It's a nice concept, but it might come with smudgy photos to suppress the noise, and would be priced a bit higher.
So maybe we'll see some decent ones in a year or two, until then, I expect to see hybrid zoom or potato zoom.
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- kupfernigk
- 0pf
- 18 Mar 2019
Problem with periscope cameras is that the aperture is limited still by the depth of the phone, which determines the maximum prism size and so the size of the front glass. If the focal length is around 6 times typical, the lens aperture will be at best around f/8 which means no low light pictures.
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- Anonymous
- Fht
- 18 Mar 2019
good ! I never take selfies
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- Anonymous
- LQv
- 18 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 18 Mar 2019Are you sure it's not the other way around?Glass body, IP rating, Fingerprint scanner, fingerprint scanner as home button, home button physical , tablets 4:3 , bottom speaker, iris scanner, OIS, ugly notch, 960fps ,3 layer stacked cmos, Qi charging, reverse Qi charging, telephoto/fake optical zoom, side Fingerprint scanner, image stacking, ultra wide angle, screen Fingerprint scanner, desktop mode
All were find before. Funniest part is the fact many of this stuff were called gimmick by Sammyboys. Suddenly the became useful.
- Walter C. Dornez
- r93
- 18 Mar 2019
moon, 18 Mar 2019I agree, Samsung is very good in developing the concept of ... moreExactly. Plus, it's not like they don't make new stuff
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- Alien
- 3RM
- 18 Mar 2019
I really don't care..
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- xXENDER FREAKXx
- TRK
- 18 Mar 2019
Not really to be honest. While periscope cameras do help to increase the zoom distance, it is often done by hybrid, using other camera sensors that's available in the smartphone to achieve this zoom distance. Don't get me wrong, it's a good concept, it's just that I really do wish that we're getting the legit 10x zoom instead of a hybrid one. Of course, if it's an optical one chances are the smartphone's going to have a camera bump, because of the mechanism required to move the focal length back and forth, and that's one the advantages that periscope cameras have; it can help in reducing the camera bump. Good concept, but definitely not the one that can be kept for long
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- moon
- 0Cj
- 18 Mar 2019
Tooluka, 17 Mar 2019Excessive zoom factor with the same tiny sensor and same ti... moreI suggest that you shall have to learn first the difference between optical and digital.
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- moon
- 0Cj
- 18 Mar 2019
Walter C. Dornez, 17 Mar 2019Difference is, Samsung has the most experience and money to do itI agree, Samsung is very good in developing the concept of others.
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- User
- 0xP
- 18 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 17 Mar 2019100% nonsense. Without editing, even medium format cameras ... moreFunny, because my Fuji camera takes much much better looking photos than any phone around here (not just in detail) without any editing. In all circumstances I've ever been in.
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- Ekimolaos
- aXb
- 18 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 17 Mar 2019The future of front-facing camera is that they go under-scr... moreYou didn't even read the article.
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- Anonymous
- k2K
- 18 Mar 2019
Mike, 17 Mar 2019Do we really need such high zoom ratios? I mostly use wide ... moreI'd be happy with 3x optical, which is the same as most point & shoot cameras.
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- Anonymous
- t@g
- 18 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 17 Mar 2019Really? Why are they more copying than creating nowaday... moreAre you sure it's not the other way around?
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- Anonymous
- Kxb
- 18 Mar 2019
Why not make a descent camera phone just like samsung did before, with Galaxy zoom series. It also had 10x optical zoom
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- shun
- sR1
- 18 Mar 2019
shun, 18 Mar 2019Give me a >4x smooth optical zoom and variable focus len... moreFor non travelling, DSLR will still be my main camera in the foreseeable future...
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- shun
- vx8
- 18 Mar 2019
Give me a >4x smooth optical zoom and variable focus length and I will consider using my phone as my travel camera... go ahead and make the phone thicker by a few mm for better result :)
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- Anonymous
- qJ}
- 18 Mar 2019
zoom lenses will only matter if we manage to have proper software for it. we basically need instant multiexposure and pixel-shift-style stacking while handheld. if/when that happens, yeah, call me. when that happens most point and shot cameras are fully dead.