Get a closer look at the iPhone 18 Pro’s mechanical camera

Each of those teeny lens blades is astir the aforesaid thickness arsenic a quality hair. | Image: iFixit

iFixit's latest instrumentality teardown shows america the interior workings of the caller variable aperture lens wrong Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside immoderate repair concerns to beryllium mindful of. The adjustable mechanical iris opens and closes magnetically, controlling however overmuch airy should walk done to the sensor, featuring six leaf-like overlapping blades that are each astir arsenic bladed arsenic a quality hair.

You tin spot that standard examination yourself beneath successful a side-by-side representation that iFixit took utilizing a Evident DSX2000 microscope. Cramming that mechanics into the aforesaid main camera footprint arsenic the iPhone 17 Pro bid models is impressive, with iFixit …

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