Oppo’s new Find X3 Pro smartphone can operate as a microscope, offering a 50Mp camera that zooms to an incredible level of detail.
The microlens they use is only at its earliest stage, but as a company spokesman explains to The Australian, this technology poses difficulties.
“Creating a microscopic camera lens with 60x magnification is no simple task,” says Oppo. “There are very real, functional challenges associated with any super macro module, let alone a microscopic one.
“High-magnification lenses, for example, are very sensitive to white specks and hair particles on the lens. These tiny elements can degrade the quality of a photo taken at high magnification because they too are magnified.
“Crafting a microlens camera even requires a different mounting method when manufacturing. On the structural level, Oppo installed the microscope module on the back cover of the phone, instead of directly mounting it on the motherboard.”
The Find X3 Pro is available for $1,499 at Jb Hi-Fi
