The Camera Plateau: What's New With the iPhone 17 Pro Cameras

With the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max, Apple introduced a caller plan for the rear of the device. Instead of a camera bump, we present person a camera plateau that spans astir the full backmost of the iPhone. The camera plateau houses an upgraded camera strategy that includes a revamped Telephoto lens.


All 3 of the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ and Pro Max cameras are 48 megapixels, and determination are 5 zoom options crossed the lenses.

Telephoto Lens

The 48-megapixel Fusion Telephoto lens is new, and an upgrade implicit the 12-megapixel Telephoto lens successful the iPhone 16 Pro models. It supports 4x zoom, oregon a 100mm focal magnitude equivalent. At 4x zoom, you tin seizure 48-megapixel images.


It besides supports 8x zoom, oregon a 200mm focal magnitude equivalent. 8x zoom images are constricted to 12 megapixels. Apple says that the Telephoto sensor is 56 percent larger, allowing for improved show successful mediocre lighting conditions.

The Telephoto lens supports Hybrid Focus Pixels, 3D sensor-shift optical representation stabilization and autofocus, and it has the tetraprism plan that Apple introduced past year.

The 8x optical zoom tin beryllium expanded to 40x integer zoom. It doesn't rather lucifer the 100x zoom that Samsung's smartphones are known for, but it does grow the zoom scope compared to anterior iPhones.

Wide Lens

The 48-megapixel wide-angle lens, oregon Fusion Main lens arsenic Apple refers to it, hasn't changed overmuch compared to the ‌iPhone 16 Pro‌.

You tin instrumentality 24-megapixel oregon 48-megapixel images astatine the modular 24mm focal length, oregon 12-megapixel 2x Telephoto images astatine a 48mm focal length.

Features see second-generation sensor-shift optical representation stabilization, 100 percent Focus Pixels, and an f/1.78 aperture.

Ultra Wide-Angle Lens

Apple calls the 48-megapixel ultra wide lens the Fusion Ultra Wide. It has a 13mm focal length, an f/2.2 aperture, and a 120 grade tract of view. It supports taking close-up 48-megapixel macro shots, and has enactment for what Apple calls Hybrid Focus Pixels.

LiDAR and Flash

At the close broadside of the camera plateau, there's an Adaptive True Tone Flash and LiDAR Scanner.

Other Camera Features

Other camera exertion that Apple has introduced implicit the years is included.

• Photonic Engine - Combines the champion pixels from a high-resolution representation and an representation optimized for airy capture, producing a 24-megapixel representation with item sourced from an representation doubly the resolution. The Photonic Engine kicks successful for debased airy images.


• Deep Fusion - Works successful mid to debased lighting conditions and brings retired the texture and item successful the image. It improves images with mean lighting.


• Smart HDR 5 - Recognizes 1 oregon much radical successful a country and optimizes contrast, lighting, and tegument tones truthful everyone looks their best.


• Portrait images with Focus and Depth Control - You don't request to take Portrait mode earlier capturing an representation to get a representation shot. You tin conscionable drawback a photo, and if there's a idiosyncratic oregon a pet, extent accusation is collected and Portrait mode is enabled automatically with a blurred background. It works for Night mode, too.


• Portrait Lighting - Changes the lighting of Portrait mode photos with effects that see Natural, Studio, Contour, Stage, Stage Mono, and High-Key Mono.


• Night mode - Takes a bid of images implicit a fewer seconds and aggregates them to let for photography successful utmost debased lighting situations.


• Panorama - Captures panoramic shots that are up to 63 megapixels successful size.


• Photographic Styles (including a caller Bright enactment this year) - Photographic Styles are filters that you tin use earlier an representation is captured, previewing them arsenic you instrumentality a shot.


• Spatial photos and videos - Videos and photos captured successful spatial mode tin beryllium viewed successful 3D connected the Vision Pro.


• ProRAW - A pro video signaling option.


• Lens correction (for the Ultra Wide) - Eliminates distortion.


• Auto representation stabilization - Corrects for camera shake.


• Burst mode - Allows a bid of images to beryllium captured each astatine once, which is bully for high-action shots.

Video Capabilities

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models enactment signaling 4K Dolby Vision video astatine up to 120 frames per second.

4K 120fps ProRes video signaling is disposable with an outer retention instrumentality attached, and the ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models enactment ProRes RAW recording, a caller diagnostic this year. There's besides enactment for Apple Log 2 and Genlock video synchronization, pro features aimed astatine filmmakers.

Apple added a Dual Capture diagnostic that records from the beforehand and backmost cameras astatine the aforesaid time. Dual Capture supports up to 4K Dolby Vision signaling astatine 30 frames per second.

Other video features that Apple has added implicit the years are besides available.

• Cinematic mode up to 4K Dolby Vision astatine 30 fps for keeping the absorption connected the main taxable portion you move


• Action mode up to 2.8K Dolby Vision astatine 60 fps for enhancing stabilization to trim shake


• Spatial video signaling astatine 1080p astatine 30 fps, with spatial audio


• Academy Color Encoding System


• Macro video recording, including slo-mo and time-lapse


• 1080p Slo-mo enactment astatine up to 240 fps, oregon 4K Dolby Vision astatine 120 fps


• Time-lapse


• QuickTake


• Digital zoom up to 15x


• Cinematic video stabilization


• Continuous autofocus video


• Audio Mix and upwind sound reduction

Front Camera

Apple added a caller 18-megapixel Center Stage front-facing camera for selfies and video calls. It has an f/1.8 aperture, and arsenic the sanction suggests, it supports Center Stage. Center Stage is the diagnostic that keeps you successful framework during video calls arsenic you determination around.


The updated beforehand camera sensor is larger and it is square-shaped, which means much tin acceptable successful the framework than before. You tin adjacent instrumentality front-facing cameras successful scenery oregon representation mode without rotating your phone. Apple besides improved stabilization erstwhile capturing video.

Dual Capture video works with some the beforehand and rear cameras, truthful you tin grounds a country and your absorption astatine the aforesaid time.

Other iPhones

The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models are the lone devices that person the three-camera setup. The modular iPhone 17 has a dual-lens camera setup with wide and ultra-wide lenses, portion the iPhone Air has a single-lens camera that's equivalent to the Main camera connected the 17 Pro.
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