Oppo has launched a quick video hinting at a brand new kind of digital camera design for smartphones. The corporate’s “self-developed retractable digital camera” is proven extending from the telephone’s physique earlier than retracting again inside. The video means that the mechanism is waterproof and that it’ll mechanically retract the digital camera if the telephone is dropped.
In contrast to pop-up selfie cameras that conceal themselves inside a telephone till wanted, transferring 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, but it surely 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, that means it needs to be round 2x longer than the telephone’s fundamental lens. That’s a a lot greater sensor than you have a tendency to search out behind telephoto lenses, so possibly the additional peak allowed by the retracting mechanism is what makes this potential.
Oppo is releasing this video forward of subsequent week’s annual Inno Day occasion, the place the corporate typically exhibits off numerous ideas and applied sciences earlier than they’re commercially deployed. Final 12 months’s occasion featured a rollable telephone and AR glasses. This 12 months, Oppo is holding Inno Day throughout two days, December 14th and fifteenth.
