Tech News- OPPO’s 10x lossless zoom tech

By: Cinder Aclurenix S. Agapito

Oppo detailed its 10x lossless zoom tech at MWC 2019. As we mentioned, the Oppo 10x lossless zoom
technology relies on a triple camera setup, which helps solves the difficulties of the multi-focal length and
continuous zoom obstacles to lossless zoom. It features a 48-megapixel high-resolution primary sensor, a 16mm
focal length 120-degree ultra wide-angle lens, and a 160mm focal length telephoto lens.

What Oppo has done here is placed the image sensor and additional lenses perpendicular to the body of
the phone (instead of sitting parallel and flat) and used a mirror setup to redirect light from the camera cutout
towards the image sensor. This placement allows Oppo to provide for a 35mm equivalence of 160mm, forming the
“10x” zoom part of the setup. By switching between these three cameras, Oppo provides for a full 10x range of
lossless zoom with variable focal length from 16mm – 160mm.

Zooming in by such a large margin amplifies the minor shakes into major disruptions and blurs for the
image. Oppo tackles this nuisance by equipping all three cameras with OIS. The telephoto-periscope setup
achieves OIS by wiggling around the mirror by fractions of a millimeter to counter unintended hand movement.
However, because of the magnitude of the zoom and the challenges involved in the technology, previewing photos
through the telephoto lens produces a jelly-effect, which is a bit jarring to the user experience (but does not affect
the end result).

Other info

1. The telephoto lens also has a long minimum focusing distance for shooting, so its main usage is for
capturing greater detail in landscape scenarios, rather than for zooming in for macro photography.

2. The company claimed the stabilization precision of the OIS tech is 0.001445 degrees, a 73 percent
improvement over its 5x optical zoom tech.

3. The release date is Q2 of 2019 meaning April to June of 2019

Model Phone Info

The camera tech was shown off in a prototype device that came with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC, an
FHD+ display, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The battery capacity of the prototype was 4,065mAh,
and it did not feature a headphone jack, or a visible fingerprint scanner (likely because it housed an in-display
fingerprint sensor). To be clear, this was a preview device that was meant to show off the camera technology
rather than the phone, so the final consumer-ready phone from Oppo may have a lot of variance with these specs.
However, we expect the device to come with a high price tag, and as a consequence, some high-end features.

Questions:

1. What are the three lenses of the said product of Oppo?

2. When is the release date?

3. How does this technology benefit us in our modern life?