The iPhone 8 has one camera, the iPhone X has two cameras, the iPhone 13 Pro has three cameras, the Galaxy S22 Ultra has four cameras, and some phones have five cameras.
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This Sony phone has one important feature that sets it apart from other phones with three cameras: native optical zoom. When you zoom in to 3.5x, it’s like slightly cropping a photo with the 3x lens after you take it.
Sony’s Xperia 1 Mark IV brings back the legendary continuous optical zoom through a telephoto camera. Now you can zoom continuously between 3.5x and 5.2x with true optical zoom.
The Xperia 1 Mark III had a pretty wild telephoto setup. On the other hand, the Xperia 1 Mark IV has a stepless zoom, which is like having dozens of cameras in one.
The Xperia 1 Mark IV has a camera with a focal range of 85 to 125 millimeters, which offers better sharpness across the range while behaving like a regular camera.
Sony Xperia 1 IV
The technology still needs much improvement, but imagine a phone with a zoom range of 2x to 8x and 1x to 10x. Then you wouldn’t need separate main and telephoto cameras.
Even if all cameras can zoom, there aren’t many lenses that can do everything, like an 18- to 400-millimeter lens. The problem gets even bigger when you scale it down to a tiny smartphone camera with tiny sensors that can’t take in as much light.
Sony’s Xperia 1 Mark IV has an impressive, well-engineered periscope zoom feature and an oversized 6 1/2-inch OLED display with 4K and 120 hertz, as well as a larger battery, a new 12-megapixel selfie camera, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip.
Sony has been remarkably consistent with this design, keeping the headphone jack. They’ve also added many new software features around this phone that focus on gaming and live-streaming.
The Sony Xperia XZ1 has a lot of advantages. Still, it also has some classic Sony disadvantages, like the fact that it won’t come to the U.S. until September and comes in a box with just the phone.