The numbers of cameras on modern phones is slowly going up. We’ve seen phones with a quad or penta-camera setup already, but the zooming capability of some phones caught a lot of us by surprise this year, didn’t it? Both the Huawei P30 Pro and Oppo Reno 10x Zoom have been praised for their superzoom feature, which is insane, and now Xiaomi wants to join the party as well.
Well, this camera setup doesn’t provide you optically zoomed photos and there’s obvious loss in quality. The phone makers are, however, compensating for the same via software algorithms and providing users a hybrid lossless zoom image quality. Xiaomi’s patent application doesn’t reveal the focal length that the periscope camera can deliver, however, we can expect it to match Huawei or Oppo.
