Little by little more and more concrete details of the improvements of the iPhone 12s are beginning to be revealed, the foreseeable name with which Apple‘s smartphones will arrive for this 2021. The popular analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed in the last hours some details about of the cameras that the ‘Pro’ models would have and that is a continuation of some leaks that had been known in previous months.
The main improvement of the ‘Ultra Wide’ of the iPhone 12s Pro
As has been happening in the last two years, Apple will once again bet on a three-camera system on the back of its ‘Pro’ range iPhone, once again being accompanied by a LiDAR sensor that already had its premiere in the iPhone 12 launched at the end of last year. One of these lenses is the ultra wide angle, also known as ultra wide by its name in English. Precisely this would bring a significant improvement according to Ming-Chi Kuo.
It was already several months ago that this year’s iPhone would bring a better ultra-wide angle lens that would allow to improve the photographs taken in low light conditions, even allowing to obtain astrophotography results with improved exposure times. To this is added the new information from Kuo in which he claims that it will have an automatic focus that will allow to obtain sharper photo results even if the subject of the image is at a greater distance.
Obviously this is difficult to assess without being able to have proof of how the images are, something that unfortunately we intuit that we will not be able to see until Apple presents the new devices. However, improvements in this section are welcome, something that the company improves every year, but that sometimes has left a bittersweet taste in users who were looking for bigger improvements. It remains to be seen if these improvements mentioned are followed by others such as the video portrait mode that has also been rumored in these times.
Will it be extensible to normal iPhone 12s?
Everything points to no. In the same report, Kuo says that these improvements will reach the iPhone not ‘Pro’ in 2022, so we can imagine that these improvements will not be incorporated in the iPhone 12s and 12s mini. A jug of cold water to which was added a known information last week in which it was stated that these standard devices would not incorporate the LiDAR sensor as had been rumored in previous months.
We remember that those iPhone 12s and 12s mini would bring a striking change in the rear camera module, making the set of two lenses be placed diagonally instead of being one on top of the other as has been happening in this range in recent years. Beyond being an aesthetic change, this could have its origin in improving the capture of objects and people, emulating in a way the functions of LiDAR, although without the obvious improvements that this sensor brings to photography. It will be necessary to see at the moment of the truth how much distance there is between the results obtained with them and with the ‘Pro’ models.