There are four cameras on the back of the brand-new Huawei P30 Pro. It has a standard camera; an ultra-wide lens; a
There are four cameras on the back of the brand-new Huawei P30 Pro. It has a standard camera; an ultra-wide lens; a “time-of-flight” camera for depth-sensing; but the one that has got us all talking is the telephoto, mega-zoom lens.
Huawei calls it the Periscope lens and it’s every bit a technological marvel as the critics are making it out to be. Periscopes are what you find in submarines, comprising a tube with a series of mirrors that let you see things that are out of regular sight.
The Chinese brand have somehow managed to implement this technology in the P30 Pro. Unlike normal phone cameras, the Periscope lens is not built into the phone, but Huawei arranged its mirrors horizontally across the phone.
The result: five times optical zoom, and up to fifty times digital zoom. Fifty!
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The internet is going mad about the P30 Pro’s mind-boggling achievement. While many are in praise of what they’ve accomplished, others are a little creeped out by the sinister potential of its 50x zoom lens.
And they have every right to be. There comes a point where tech gets too sophisticated that it becomes potentially dangerous.
Tech and privacy are at war today. Corporations can’t be trusted with our information; the likes of Facebook and Google have been plagued with endless controversies of privacy invasion. Huawei themselves have been at the centre of accusations of espionage by the U. S., advocating a boycott.
The problem doesn’t just lie with big companies, however. Just as alarmingly, individuals are abusing the benefits of technology.
Reports emerged about South Korea’s spy camera “epidemic”, in which tiny camera were hidden to film women – and men – undressing in clothing stores, gyms and toilets.
