Why do we make double-triple-quadruple eyed cameras in smartphones instead of just improving the specs and keeping one lens?
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Theoretically they could make a zoom lens, big apertures, but the size would be very big, bulky and heavy. Phone camera priorities size so that’s out of question.
Zoom lens with small aperture? Then there would be not much light, and background blur would be too weak, hence destroy the zoom purpose: to take portraits. And it’d still be too big.
Is there any workaround for zoom lenses on phones? Maybe (asus zoom) but it’s over engineering imo.
Not to mention there’re techs like IR, AR that needs a special kind of sensors.
Other solution, like external optics? It’d be easy to lost, too much hassle, low sale potential….
So here you go: it’s not that they have a choice. Most effective solution is just slap a bunch of cameras with different focal length, no hassle for both makers and users.
Unless in the future they can make use of liquid glass then we might see ‘the ultimate camera lens for all situations’. But not now
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