No rest for the wicked. Yesterday, Sunday, March 27, Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted! In response to a tweet from 9to5macwho presented a diagram of the iPhone 14 Pro and the larger rear optical block, the analyst simply explains the reason for this increase.
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According to the star analyst, an expert on Apple’s future actions, this more complex block is due to the fact that Tim Cook’s teams made a decision to improve the wide angle. So the unit at the heart of your iPhone’s photography experience will see its sensor go from 12MP to 48MP.
This should allow – again with the help of computational imaging functions – to improve both clarity and definition of the image. If the images of Apple smartphones have long had excellent color rendering and very good exposure, they suffer from flat color processing. A technique that is particularly noticeable when you enlarge an image or try to print it.
The main reason behind the 14 Pro/Pro Max’s larger and more prominent rear camera bump is the 48MP wide camera upgrade (versus the 13MP/Pro Max 12MP). The diagonal length of the 48MP CIS will increase by 25-35%, and the height of the 48MP 7P lens will increase by 5-10%. https://t.co/lrwgmnLNce
– 郭明 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (mingchikuo) March 27, 2022
Whatever the case, Ming-Chi Kuo gives an idea of the gains in the size of the backlight unit. It will be 25-35% wider and 5-10% thicker. The wide-angle optics, as in the latest iPhone 13 Pro, will consist of seven elements made of plastic.
Back in September, it was rumored that Apple was planning to introduce a design without a bumper from the cameras on the back. With the increase in the depth of the modules, it will certainly be difficult to achieve this. But Apple can still maintain punch hole on the forehead to make the current score disappear.
