Many of the iPhone rumors we’re seeing proper now are centered on the iPhone 16 due in 2024 – however there’s additionally hypothesis about what’s coming the yr after with the iPhone 17, and particularly the cameras on board the iPhone 17 Professional Max.

Based on trade analyst Jeff Pu (through MacRumors), the iPhone 17 Professional Max goes to return with a 48MP periscope telephoto digicam as one of many cameras on the again, and it will be optimized for capturing video for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

We have already seen movies shot on the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max in Apple’s blended actuality headset, and the 3D outcomes are spectacular. It sounds as if the standard shall be improved even additional within the coming years.

Pu would not go into any extra element about what we are able to anticipate from the most costly 2025 iPhone, neither is there any elaboration on how the Professional Max mannequin would possibly differ from the others within the sequence in the case of cameras.

Cameras by the numbers

As you may learn in our iPhone 15 Professional Max assessment, this yr’s top-tier iPhone handset comes with a 48MP predominant digicam, a 12 MP periscope telephoto digicam with 5x optical zoom, and a 12MP ultrawide digicam on the again. The iPhone 15 Professional matches these numbers, apart from utilizing a regular 12MP telephoto digicam with 3x optical zoom.

With the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max rumored to be getting a 48MP ultrawide digicam subsequent yr, that might imply the iPhone 17 Professional Max is about to get three 48MP cameras fitted contained in the rear module – a severely high-end setup.

The iPhone 15 Professional Max periscope telephoto digicam makes use of a tetraprism design, the place a folded glass construction is used to repeatedly mirror mild. This implies a larger optical zoom degree may be reached in a extra compact type issue.

It is price remembering that rather a lot can change in two years, and we would not take these leaks too severely till we’re nearer to the launch of the iPhone 17 – however plainly cell pictures will proceed to be a key focus for the handset sequence.

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