It’s all smoke and mirrors. But we can call them “options” and “settings.”
48 megapixels. That’s the maximum image resolution that iPhone 14 Pro users can achieve from its wide-angle camera. That’s a 65% boost in image resolution and almost as much as some medium-format cameras. But the iPhone’s camera can also capture 12MP stills. Why the disparity?
Well, there’s a whole lot to unpack, and we start with the camera array.
All Good Things Come In Threes
The iPhone 14 Pro rear camera array has three cameras. First, there’s a 12MP Ultra Wide 13mm camera with an ƒ/2.2 aperture and a six‑element lens. For long-distance shots, there’s the 12MP 77mm 3x Telephoto with an ƒ/2.8 aperture, optical image stabilization, and a six-element lens. Lastly, there’s the main 24mm ƒ/1.78 aperture camera with second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilization and a seven‑element lens.
It’s a lot of really intricate technology packed into a bounding box about 1 inch on each side. But the interesting things happen on the software side.
Author: James DeRuvo
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