Digital New Year Challenge Compared with the main camera and ultra-wide angle, there are many users who use the mobile phone camera the most frequently, but the telephoto, after all, the focal length of the ultra-wide angle and the main camera is used daily, which is indeed not very friendly to ordinary users who do not have any shooting experience. The sense of space compression brought by telephoto and a more convenient composition experience make the user's daily shooting experience more worry-free, so telephoto has also become a new direction for many manufacturers' roll images, and even has a tendency to catch up with the main camera.
The previous Samsung S23 Ultra was equipped with a 10x periscope telephoto lens, which gave it excellent performance in telephoto, and also made the Samsung S23 Ultra known as a "concert artifact". However, the latest Samsung S24 Ultra this 10x periscope telephoto lens has been changed to 5x, which makes many users feel disappointed, although 5x zoom is indeed a lot more practical, but for friends who like to watch concerts, Samsung S24 Ultra may not be the best choice, and other manufacturers' machines, can it replace Samsung's "concert artifact" status? Let's take a look.
Apple pioneered telephoto, and Huawei is responsible for leading the development
As a pioneer of mobile phone telephoto, Apple used a 56mm-equivalent 2x telephoto lens on the iPhone7 Plus as early as 2016, which undoubtedly created a precedent for telephoto portrait mode, and also made the mobile phone's multi-camera system enter a truly practical stage.
Subsequently, Apple has also continued this strategy, choosing to retain the telephoto portrait lens, but in the face of the rapid development of the Android camp image system, the telephoto lens of the iPhone is also significantly behind the Android camp, until last year's iPhone15 Pro Max, Apple finally brought it an equivalent 120mm 5x periscope telephoto lens, and it has also caught up with the mainstream Android flagship in the focal length, and at the same time, by redesigning the angular direction in the lens, The light is reflected to the sensor after 4 turns.
The advantage of this is that it can achieve 5x zoom at the same time, so that the size of the lens module is smaller, but the problem is that the 4 times of turning reflection makes its focusing distance reach more than 85mm, basically saying goodbye to the telephoto macro function that mainstream Android has, plus 1 3With a small bottom of 2 inches, the level of dark light imaging is still collapsed, which is regrettable.
In addition to Apple, Huawei's progress in telephoto lenses is still very representative, starting from 2019 P30 Pro equipped with a 5x periscope telephoto lens, which also marks the beginning of the "arms race" of mobile phone telephoto lenses. Subsequently, in 2020, Huawei P40 Pro+ achieved a 10x periscope telephoto lens in a limited space, which was a new record for the entire mobile phone industry at that time.
What's more, Huawei not only refreshed the zoom factor, but also chose to slowly improve the ease of use, Huawei P60 Pro released in March last year used a set of 6 lenses plus 2 prisms of the birefringence lens group design, with 1 2The 55-inch 48-megapixel RYYB sensor makes only 8With a body thickness of 03mm, it is equivalent to 90mm of 3At the same time, there is a 10mm telephoto macro with 5x light change. I have to say that just looking at the parameters, even if the P60 Pro is about to be released for a year, it is still a monster.
In the second half of the year, the mate60 Pro made adjustments on this basis, narrowed the aperture a little, and achieved a 5mm super telephoto macro, which is far ahead of the curve.
The two major blue-green factories have also taken different paths
In addition to Apple and Huawei, the two representative manufacturers, vivo has given another telephoto lens development direction, vivo X100 Pro released at the end of last year is equipped with Zeiss APO telephoto lens, although the overall structure design is similar to Huawei, but due to the breakthrough of materials and processes, the aperture has been raised to F25. It greatly increases the experience of using the dark light environment.
and,vivo X100 ProThis periscope lens module has a total of 6 lenses,And they are all made of resin materials,And all of them have passed Zeiss's APO lens certification,This is enough to show its material and process strength,This simple optical quality improvement,It also represents another direction of mobile phone telephoto progress,Not only to shoot far,But also to shoot well。
In addition, as vivo's "old rival", OPPO has two brushes on the periscope telephoto lens, and it is also the first manufacturer to compete with Huawei on the periscope telephoto lens, Find X6 Pro is equipped with 1 1The 56-inch outsole telephoto is also a precedent, and it even gives dual periscope telephoto lenses on the latest Find X7 Ultra.
Of course,From a technical point of view,In terms of simple innovation,OPPO may not be as good as the above three,But OPPO is definitely a representative"Force brick flying",Directly use the outsole sensor to make up for the loss of the telephoto lens,It's really good in telephoto experience,Highlight a steady and steady play,If you just pursue a good daily telephoto experience,OPPO is still quite a safe choice。
The development of mobile phone telephoto in the future is not limited to concert artifacts
After talking about the technical route of the periscope telephoto lens, there may still be some users in the end, who will change the Samsung S24 Ultra from 10 million 10x periscope telephoto scheme to 50 million pixels 5x periscope telephoto, and regret it, after all, the "concert artifact" is gone. The advantage of this is that the sensor can be replaced with a larger 1 252 inches, larger sensor and higher pixels, plus the fusion algorithm of multiple cameras, have been greatly improved in terms of ease of use and image quality, after all, not everyone goes to the press conference every day, and now the Samsung S24 Ultra is obviously much more practical.
So what will be the next concert artifact? This is not good for the author to say for the time being,For now,Honor's latest magic6 Pro uses 1800 million pixels of 1 149-inch ultra-high pixel extra-large bottom scheme, although this results in an optical zoom factor of 25x, but ultra-high pixels may also be able to use it for cropping. It just so happened that there was a revelation on the Internet that vivo X100 Pro+ will also use 200 million pixels43 times the bottom periscope, it seems that the two families have a high degree of unity in their ideas for the next development methods.
Therefore, judging from the results, there is a high probability that future mobile phone manufacturers will not pay attention to the zoom coefficient as much as a few years ago, control the zoom factor of the lens within a reasonable range as much as possible, and at the same time pursue the outsole as much as possible to improve the performance in a dark environment such as a concert, and finally rely on the breakthrough of lens materials and design and other technologies to bring better optical quality, and intervene in computational photography, so as to achieve the best use effect.
And judging from the current situation, if you really need a concert artifact, there are three options: Samsung S24 Ultra is still a good choice even if it is upgraded to 5x optical zoom in reverse; In addition, the Oppo Find X7 Ultra's dual periscope can also be considered, but it is limited to medium focus, and the high-powered digital zoom Oppo Find X7 Ultra still has some room for optimization at present. The advantage of the vivo X100 Pro is that the telephoto algorithm has always been sharp, and it may be good in terms of sharpness, but because the algorithm is involved too much, there may be a "guess" error.
As for Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, and Apple, given the performance of the latest phones in telephoto or at night, they can only be used as alternatives for the time being.
However, in the future, the development of mobile phone telephoto lenses will definitely move towards a multi-dimensional development path, although I don't know what the final result is, but this road is definitely still very long, there is a lot of space worth exploring and breaking through, we also hope that in the future, domestic mobile phone manufacturers will have more exciting progress, and more concert machines, portrait machines, scenery machines and other related products will be born.