Why do Apple think three lenses eight lenses?

The iPhone Air Super-SHIN has only one camera in the back, including: 48-megapixel sensor with 2.6 2.6 mm. It is the same main camera for the regular iPhone 17 (which also features a 0.5X Ultrawide camera). 17 Pro Pro and Pro Max contains a similar main camera, but it does not consist of a 48-megapixel sensor, F/1.78 equivalent 24 mm-it also contains the super lens and adds a 4X phone lens.

So these are the phones and their cameras, but what about the complex math mathematics of Apple?

Apple showed a slice of sample images that indicate that a single rear rear sensor of iPhone Air can be used as 26 mm, 28 mm, 35 mm and 52 mm reward. According to Apple Technical specifications From iPhone air, once the equivalent focal length is 52 mm (2x zooming), you reach 12 megapixels of accuracy. The “lenses” may be 28 mm and 35 mm similar to what we are The first saw in iPhone 15 ProWho works like this:

As for iPhone 17 Pro, the three actual lenses are described as an eight (even from He claimed seven 16 Pro last year). If the eight “professional lenses” start with four main cameras, such as air, their 48 -megapixel cameras form their other four cameras. freedom Apple was contacted to clarify this matter and all these “professional lenses” in iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air, but the company did not respond by the time of publication. So, this is my best appreciation for how Apple gets eight lenses of three:

This is how Apple lens mathematics works through their cameras. Apple delegate described these lenses as “visual quality” during the company’s main offer. But is this visual magnification? No, not really. Like most smartphones, it is a mixture of fixed optics with focal length and smart arithmetic imaging. It is clear that “visual quality” is a loose marketing term. But the most strange and confusing is how Apple tells the lenses via iPhone 17 as “Visual Zoom Options”.

If you want to get a technique, there is no visual augmentation in the traditional sense. Actual optical zoom is the lens of changing the focal length Visually. Like when you play a loop on a lens barrel or switch on a point and shoot and move the lens physically, making a different field in the image. I know in the world of smartphones, we use “zoom” a little bit to mean any phone lens or digital enlargement / enlargement, but it runs this It looks fast and luxurious in your marketing terms as if to enter into a misleading area.

Apple is not alien to be mysterious to market it to make it look like you are getting more – just try that Read some plans From previous videos and neknotes. But this number of lenses seems to be false water designed to prepare the list of features and preach obsessive with the camera at the same time. The use of actual optics for better focal lengths will always be than optics and some programs, as my colleague Alison Johnson She showed in an excellent shooting for her between Google Pixel 10 Pro All of them are artificial intelligence versus a Nikon camera with visual augmentation. (Yes, the pixel was going well with the correction of the thermal fog, but also Nikon when you brought it to the post.)

IPhone is not a four -lens. But is it? Love The presence of four lenses? Four “Pro” lenses? What about four good The lenses? We will have to know that.