tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584 timelets timelets 2020-02-28T21:51:27Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-25:2614584:1189415 2020-02-28T21:51:27Z 2020-02-28T21:51:27Z public 4 <blockquote> In olden times, a camera had one sensor, and lenses moved to magnify the picture. Now, you have several sensors and lenses, each one set to a different magnification. Where the iPhone 11 Pro’s telephoto has a “2X optical zoom” when it jumps from its wide-angle lens to its telephoto lens, the Galaxy S20 has a “10X hybrid optical zoom,” jumping from the ultrawide to the telephoto lens—the lenses themselves don’t move in either case.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsungs-galaxy-s20-ultra-has-a-100x-zoom-camera-so-we-tested-it-with-a-private-eye-11582907082">https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsungs-galaxy-s20-ultra-has-a-100x-zoom-camera-so-we-tested-it-with-a-private-eye-11582907082</a><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=timelets&ditemid=1189415" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments