And all without a massive camera bump, too
Samsung has announced a new kind of telephoto camera design
It helps telephoto cameras combine bright apertures with slim designs
This is particularly beneficial for low-light portrait photos
The world’s best camera phones have improved their telephoto cameras greatly in the past few years, but Samsung has just revealed a new technology that could boost their performance while keeping its phones acceptably slim.
Announced in a blog post on Samsung’s Semiconductor website (spotted by Android Authority), the so-called ‘ALoP’ technology reshuffles the layout of Samsung’s current periscope camera design.
The main benefit is creating space for lenses with brighter maximum apertures (which theoretically means less noise in low light) without increasing the size of the camera bump. Currently, the lenses inside Samsung’s ‘folded’ telephoto camera module sit vertically in line with the phone’s body. The downside of this setup is that adding a wider lens makes the camera bump thicker.
Instead, the ‘ALoP’ (or ‘All Lenses on Prism’) system places the lenses horizontally (much like a traditional camera lens) to the rear of the phone, with the prism then reflecting that light up to the camera sensor.
