At the 2017 Mobile World Congress, Oppo introduced their all new ‘5x Dual Camera Zoom’ technology. It is said to be the world’s first periscope-style dual-camera technology for smartphones. The new tech offers 5x lossless zoom capability on a smartphone and also bumps up the image stabilization capability. The smartphone maker invested almost a year to develop the new periscope-styled dual-camera technology and has filed more than 50 patents for this technology.
As said by the company, the 5x Dual Camera Zoom technology is inspired by the idea of a periscope on a submarine. The dual camera utilizes wide-angle and telephoto lenses, and the housing for the telephoto lens uses a periscope-style structure. By shifting the angle of the telephoto lens by 90 degrees, the lens will have the space it needs for a deep zoom. A periscope-style prism then directs the path of the light entering the camera by 90 degrees, and sends the image through the telephoto lens when the user zooms in on a subject or object. The periscope-style construction helps the phone to maintain a profile of 5.7mm thickness, which is even 10 percent thinner than a typical 2x optical zoom lens in a smartphone.
Talking about the OIS technology, both the prism and telephoto lens intelligently sense vibrations and compensate in real time. The all-new OIS solution can improve the performance of previous generations by 40 percent, and the prism mechanism dynamically adjusts its angle at precise increments.
Commenting on the launch, Sky Li, VP, OPPO, MD of International Mobile Business & President of OPPO India, said that the ‘5x Dual Camera Zoom’ has opened up yet another realm of possibility in terms of smartphone photography, and is a reflection of Oppo’s dedication to delivering on what customers want and need – to take beautiful and clear pictures.
He further added that Oppo is definitely putting a stake in the ground in terms of technological breakthroughs for mobile photography. The dual cameras with wide-angle and telephoto lens, together with the periscope-style construction, their image fusion technology, and the Optical Image Stabilization, edges mobile photography even closer to what digital cameras are capable of doing. The 5x Dual-Camera Zoom technology will again set yet another technological standard that others will emulate.
