Oppo has launched a quick video hinting at a brand new sort of digital camera design for smartphones. The corporate’s “self-developed retractable digital camera” is proven extending from the cellphone’s physique earlier than retracting again inside. The video means that the mechanism is waterproof and that it’ll routinely retract the digital camera if the cellphone is dropped.
In contrast to pop-up selfie cameras that conceal themselves inside a cellphone till wanted, shifting the digital camera backwards and forwards on the Z-axis may have implications for picture high quality, although Oppo hasn’t but claimed something about any optical benefits of this design. It doesn’t look like a zoom lens, given it’s marked merely as 50mm, however it may theoretically assist enhance telephoto efficiency.
Most pop-ups are annoying…
However not our self-developed retractable digital camera!
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— OPPO (@oppo) December 7, 2021
The markings on the digital camera module present that the sensor is 1/1.56 inches and the lens is 50mm-equivalent with an f/2.4 aperture, which means it needs to be round 2x longer than the cellphone’s important lens. That’s a a lot larger sensor than you have a tendency to search out behind telephoto lenses, so perhaps the additional peak allowed by the retracting mechanism is what makes this attainable.
Oppo is releasing this video forward of subsequent week’s annual Inno Day occasion, the place the corporate usually exhibits off varied ideas and applied sciences earlier than they’re commercially deployed. Final 12 months’s occasion featured a rollable cellphone and AR glasses. This 12 months, Oppo is holding Inno Day throughout two days, December 14th and fifteenth.
