One attainable indicator for the presence of excellent cameras on a cellphone is massive lenses, and it appears just like the iPhone 14 Professional may have some massive ones, as newly-unearthed pictures of an iPhone 13 Professional in a case supposedly designed for the upcoming 14 Professional exhibit.

These photographs – which had been shared by identified South Korean leaker Lanzuk, on running a blog platform Naver (opens in new tab) (subsequently noticed by GSMArena (opens in new tab)) – present that each one three rear cameras are seemingly rising this 12 months, and by fairly a major quantity.

Two of these measurement will increase make sense, as leaks recommend the primary digital camera on each Professional fashions will probably be getting a brand new 48MP sensor – which fairly presumably means a brand new lens too – whereas the ultra-wide can be anticipated to be receiving an improve as nicely, sporting a sensor with 40% bigger pixels.

What we haven’t heard a lot about is the telephoto digital camera, so it’s attention-grabbing to see that each one three lenses are being made bigger. Most leaks recommend the telelphoto snapper on this 12 months’s Execs will both be the identical as or similar to the one discovered on the iPhone 13 Professional; that means it is going to probably supply 3x optical zoom, once more.

So why the bigger lens? Nicely, there are three prospects. One is that the lens truly received’t be bigger, and this case is fallacious, or a minimum of oddly sized.

As TechRadar’s personal Senior Telephones Editor, Alex Walker-Todd explains, ‘there does appear to be a level of guesswork when making instances for unreleased iPhones. Having spoken with case makers within the run-up to the iPhone 14 line’s launch, pre-production instances are typically designed primarily based on a mixture of current {hardware}, leaks and expectations, with the corporate solely firming up the proper tolerances and {hardware} placement as soon as the completed product is definitely launched.’

One other potential is that there are extra adjustments deliberate for the 14 Professional’s digital camera system than we’ve heard of, which is an intriguing thought however most likely unlikely this near launch.

Lastly, it might be – as GSMArena factors out – that Apple is solely attempting to maintain the lenses a roughly uniform measurement, within the pursuit of symmetry. We should always discover out for positive on September 7 (which is tomorrow, on the time of writing), as that’s when the iPhone 14 line will nearly actually be unveiled.

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With these bigger lenses, the iPhone 14 Professional may begin following within the footsteps of many Android flagships, which more and more have big digital camera blocks, rippling with lenses.

Be it due to numerous cameras, bigger sensors and lenses, or further options, just like the Xiaomi Mi 11 Extremely’s secondary display, an enormous digital camera block has grow to be a standard sight on costly telephones, and it’s one we would quickly get used to seeing on iPhones too if this leak is correct.

It’s a change that would additionally make the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max look subtly totally different from the again – although nowhere close to as totally different as they’ll probably look from the entrance, given the intensive rumors that these telephones received’t have a notch.