There is hardly time to assimilate any great news in the mobile phone industry. The innovations happen continuously and the battle that many Android manufacturers have, make everyone want to offer the latest before their rivals. One of the most surprising attributes that we have seen recently is the new “microlens” of the new OPPO Find X3 Pro.
As we have seen on several occasions, the different sensors that make up mobile phones are born to carry out very specific tasks. In this way we can find wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, telephoto and the famous macro sensors. However, OPPO wants to show us that the most interesting thing to photograph may be precisely what we do not see. We’ve been watching telephoto lenses bring us closer together with optical zoom capabilities never seen before in the mobile phone industry. The question now is whether the closure opened by OPPO will be the way forward for other manufacturers.
Macro lens and micro lens
The macro lens that we all know and that is generally 2 or 5 megapixels, allows you to photograph small or other large objects , from a very close distance to the lens. Generally, two centimeters are the limit for the lens to focus properly. However, the new microlens that opens the new OPPO flagship, goes further, as it offers an even closer look.
The limit of traditional macro lenses begins when the magnification becomes unstable and the image becomes extremely grainy. This new microlens that has an aperture f / 3.0 unlike the traditional f / 2.0 / 2.4, which works like a real microscope, and allows to achieve a magnification of 60X towards the microscopic. Another of the big differences is that at this distance and with the maximum magnification, you can capture the smallest videos in FullHD resolution.
The result is that more amazing results are achieved when capturing close-up images, and we have already seen several examples of this. In addition, another of its differences is that the lens of the device can be practically glued or glued to the object to be captured. In this case, the user must activate this mode from the camera options, so that the terminal can know if the objective is really to shoot with this mode or not. The results can be as infinite as the imagination, since we will see photos of type photo microfibers, even cells, liquids or much more, like never before seen on a smartphone.
