Oppo unveiled its 5x dual camera zoom system, a smartphone photography technology, at MWC 2017. Oppo in collaboration with Corephotonics, an Israeli startup, has developed this technology to better the photography experience. Oppo’s upcoming smartphones will feature this technology, later this year. However, the company haven’t revealed any smartphone while making the announcement.
The new camera module packs more than 50 parts and sports periscope-style setup. All parts have been stacked in a 5.77mm module making it sleeker than ever which is also claimed to kill the camera bump at the back. It took company’s engineers over a year to develop this new photography technology. The new camera system diverts light through a prism into a stabilized telephoto lens set at a 90-degree angle. It utilizes Oppo’s proprietary image fusion technology for lossless 5x digital zoom.
Here’s how the company’s VP, Sky Li, explained the new tech- “The dual cameras with wide-angled and telephoto lens, together with the periscope-style construction, our image fusion technology and the Optical Image Stabilization, edges mobile photography even closer to what digital cameras are capable of doing. Our 5x Dual-Camera Zoom will again set yet another technological standard that others will emulate.”
The company haven’t revealed when the new optical zoom smartphone technology will be featured in its devices and when these devices are going to arrive in the markets. It is expected that the Chinese company will be embedding this new photography technology on its flagship device.