John Gruber, who has repeatedly sent out the inside story of Apple's new products accurately, recently broke the news in a program that Apple is busy upgrading the camera of iPhone, and the next generation will be a huge upgrade of "the biggest camera jump ever".
In addition, John Gruber also revealed that although the specific situation of the camera of the iPhone 7 is still unclear, Apple has built a dual-lens system "dual-lens system" for it, and the ultimate goal is to make the quality of proofs taken by mobile phones comparable to that of SLR.
For the research and development of cameras, Apple has never relaxed. They have submitted several patent applications before, such as optical zoom on iPhone camera, interchangeable lens and so on, and of course there are technologies similar to light field camera.
It should be noted that Sony has introduced a new generation of sensor Exmor RS IMX230, with an effective pixel of 265,438+00,000 (providing real-time HDR and 30fps 4K video shooting, and the sensor size is 65,438+0/2.4 "). Most importantly, it supports 192 point phase detection autofocus. Is it for iPhone 7?
The dual-lens system mentioned by John gruber may also be the dual-lens scheme previously shown by Israeli Corephotonics. The scheme of this lens is that one is a wide-angle lens and the other is a telephoto lens. More importantly, the two cameras will be aggregated by software to generate a composite image. When the user looks at the picture, the software will automatically judge which camera information is the main one.
In addition, the camera also has a maximum zoom of 3 times (5 times zoom can be achieved when the video is 1080p), and it can bring better weak light performance and 4 times resolution (compared with ordinary smart cameras).