The new iPhone 15 Pro Max offers 5x zoom thanks to a lens with a 120mm focal length. How did Apple put a lens like that in a phone that’s 8.25mm thick?
One of the more impressive features showcased during Apple’s September 12 event was the new camera that comes in the iPhone 15 model series. In all of the new iPhones, various new computational photography features let you change the focus of a photo after the fact. This means that you can turn a photo into a portrait without having to select «portrait mode» and its specific focus goals before taking the photo, and in general, it lets you change the focus point post-shooting.
It gets better in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, though, which boats a 5x zoom, the biggest zoom ever in an iPhone, using a lens with a 120mm focal length.
