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telephoto camera is a type of camera that allows you to take close-up pictures of subjects that are far away. It uses special lenses to make distant objects appear bigger and closer in your photos.
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The 5's camera is identical to those of the Oppo R11, combining a 16 - megapixel f / 1.7 standard camera with a 20 - megapixel
telephoto camera with f / 2.6 aperture.
On the other hand, the secondary
telephoto cameras on the iPhone X and the Note 8 are genuinely useful.
On the other hand, the iPhone X has a 12 - megapixel primary camera with wide - angle f / 1.8 OIS lens and a 12 -
megapixel telephoto camera with f / 2.4 OIS lens.
The Apple 7 Plus brings a faster A10 processor, water resistance, stereo speakers, more RAM, more internal storage capacity for the same prices, best LCD available on a phone, improved front - facing camera,
secondary telephoto camera lens, and more battery capacity.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix S2 includes dual 12 - megapixel wide - angle and
telephoto camera lenses with a Sony IMX363 sensor and Dual Pixel technology for fast autofocusing, as well as an integrated AI voice assistant to allow users to control the smartphone and their smart home appliances.
Boasting a 5.15 - inch FHD display, dual cameras (12MP wide angle and 12MP
telephoto camera for 2x optical zoom and 10x digital zoom), dual stereo speakers, a 3,350 mAh battery, an under - glass fingerprint sensor, and water resistance, the Mi 6 has some impressive specs at a bargain price.
The Apple iPhone 8 Plus boasts of a dual camera setup with a primary camera of 12 MP f / 1.8 with OIS stabilization and a secondary
telephoto camera of 12 MP f / 2.8.
At the risk of jumping to conclusions before we give the phone our full review treatment, it's pretty clear to me that the P20 Pro has probably the
best telephoto camera on any phone to date.
The OnePlus 5 is using 16MP +
20MP Telephoto camera on the back whereas the Honor 8 Pro is using 12MP (RGB) + 12MP (Monochrome) cameras on the back.
Notably, the Xiaomi Mi 6 launched with dual 12MP + 12MP wide - angle
+ telephoto cameras last year, but the Mi Mix 2 lacked a secondary camera with the telephoto lens.
The P20 Pro comes with three cameras: a 20MP monochrome sensor with an f / 1.6 lens, an
8MP telephoto camera with an f / 2.4 lens and a 40MP camera with an f / 1.8 lens.
The third camera is an 8 - megapixel
3X telephoto camera — 8 megapixels at f / 2.4, with optical stabilization.
OIS means the internal lens actually moves to compensate for your shaky hands, and it's something the iPhone's
telephoto camera lacks.
I used the dual 12MP +13
MP telephoto camera for a brief period but that's definitely not enough to judge the capabilities of the phone.
Curiosity's
telephoto camera snapped shots of three rocky outcrops not far from the rover's landing site inside Gale Crater.
The phone's camera module, which sits adjacent to a dual - tone flash, comprises a 12MP wide - angle sensor with a f / 1.75 aperture and
13MP telephoto camera with a f / 2.6 aperture.
Unfortunately, that camera has smaller pixels and therefore more noise than on a phone with a
true telephoto camera.
Secondly, a neat new 56
mm telephoto camera that lets you capture zoomed in shots without resorting to digital zoom.
The phone's octo - core Snapdragon 835 processor is the same one featured in the new Samsung Galaxy S8, and the dual camera design features both a 16 - megapixel Sony sensor and a 20 - megapixel
Sony telephoto camera that enables a bokeh - tastic portrait mode.
At the same time, Apple's new chip extends its lead in single - core performance — a plus for gaming — and the new
telephoto camera gives photographers a reason to look past the competition.
Apple has first applied the dual camera design - one wide - angle camera and the
other telephoto camera to the iPhone 7 Plus.
Zoom: The
dedicated telephoto camera on the 8 Plus gives it a large advantage over most traditional single - camera designs when it comes to zoom.
The iPhone X has Portrait mode for the
rear telephoto camera, but thanks to the TrueDepth front camera system, it also lets users take Portrait selfies.
If it determines that the primary camera would produce an overall better image than the
inferior telephoto camera, it'll take the picture with the better camera and crop / use digital zoom to make it look like what the 56 mm camera would produce.
And complementing all that, there's a 20 - megapixel
telephoto camera behind an f / 2.6 lens, which can be used in conjunction with the main in the new iPhone - style portrait mode.
However, there is no confirmation whether the company will be opting for the RGB + monochrome or the wide - angle +
telephoto camera setup.
First of all, Huawei has added a third lens to the back of the P20 Pro, which provides an 8 - megapixel, optically
stabilized telephoto camera.
A recently uncovered patent by Apple for a «
folded telephoto camera lens system» would allow for real telephoto capabilities in its next iPhone.
I find myself using the iPhone X's
telephoto camera way more than I thought I would, so I really appreciate the added versatility.
This is how it works: the 12 - megapixel wide - angle sensor captures the subject of the photograph while the secondary
telephoto camera toils to blur the background at the same time.
«When Apple launched high resolution displays, others copied quickly, as has happened more recently with the removal of the headphone socket or the iPhone 7 Plus
dual telephoto camera.»
But in 2016, the iPhone 7's image quality improvements were negligible and the big innovation from the iSight team was the addition of the
second telephoto camera on the 7 Plus and its associated portrait mode that automatically blurs out the background for a simulated bokeh effect.
The more expensive X model is completely redesigned on the exterior and has a few upgrades from the 8 line up, including a 5.8 - inch OLED screen, a
better telephoto camera and facial recognition unlocking.
From top to bottom, you get an
8MP telephoto camera, a 40MP RGB camera, and a 20MP monochrome camera.
Similar to the iPhone 7 Plus, it features two cameras — a wide - angle 12MP main camera, and a
12MP telephoto camera with a slower lens for zooming in on subjects and for special effects such as Portrait mode.
It takes a decent (though aging) overall design, adds important under - the - hood changes, removes a port that probably didn't need to be removed, adds an awesome
new telephoto camera, becomes water - resistant and calls it a day.
The real star of the show is the P20 Pro's unusual three camera array, which consists of a whopping 40MP primary sensor, a 20MP monochrome sensor, and an 8MP
3X telephoto camera.
OIS means the camera actually moves to compensate for your shaky hands, and it's something the iPhone's
telephoto camera lacks.
Perhaps the biggest change compared to the S8 Plus is that the S9 Plus has a dual camera setup in the back, with a 12 MP main sensor that can switch between f / 1.5 and f / 2.4 apertures, along with another 12
MP telephoto camera with a f / 2.4 aperture.
The iPhone 7 had one of the best smartphone cameras available, and the 7 Plus introduced Apple's Portrait mode which used the device's wide and
telephoto camera lenses to calculate depth and artificially defocus the background of photos.