However, a new report from Korea's ET News suggests the smartphone will actually come with a 12 - megapixel sensor equipped with optical image stabilization and another with a 13 - megapixel lens, that will support
telephoto pictures.
Unlike other phones with dual - sensor cameras, which use the second sensor to take
telephoto pictures or create bokeh effects, Essential uses its second sensor to boost low - light performance.
Not exact matches
If you want to learn how to take wildlife
pictures, for example, make sure the camera you choose has a compatible
telephoto lens.
The Spierigs shoot the bulk of their
picture in scrinched - up
telephoto compositions, piling the actors on top of each other.
The big draw to this mid-range phone is its 12 - megapixel dual camera system, which allows for wide and
telephoto shots with 2x optical zoom, as well as Portrait Mode - style shots that blur out the background from your subject, similar to the effect seen in
pictures from the iPhone 7.
As you can see, all three camera systems are almost identical from a hardware perspective — the newer iPhone 8 and X have «slow sync» on the True Tone flash for better flash
pictures, and the iPhone X has a slightly different aperture in the
telephoto lens, but that's about it.
That particular feature won't go live until later this year, but you can still use the iPhone 7 Plus» second
telephoto lens to achieve 2x optical zoom, which means it zooms into subjects without sacrificing
picture quality like digital zoom does on most smartphone cameras.
The handset also features a new dual - camera system ditching the secondary
telephoto zoom lens from the OnePlus 5, and replacing it with a camera that's specifically made for taking
pictures in low light.
The second lens is also a
telephoto lens that achieves 2x optical zoom, which means it zooms into subjects without sacrificing
picture quality like digital zoom does on most smartphone cameras.
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.
OnePlus 5T also has the same 16MP +20 MP rear camera setup seen on the earlier device, though the aperture on the
telephoto lens is also f / 1.7 now for better low - light
pictures.
The phone has a second
telephoto lens that achieves 2x optical zoom, which means it zooms into subjects without sacrificing
picture quality like digital zoom does on most smartphone cameras.
With its 2x
telephoto zoom lens, the iPhone 7 Plus takes significantly better close - up
pictures than the XL and the S7 do with digital zoom.