Oppo has finally shown off their new smartphone camera technology at Mobile World Congress which rethinks how to tackle the problem of zooming on the smartphone. Zooming is something that people prefer to do a lot of time to capture the far away objects, but generally, the result is a downgraded quality of the photo. The image ends up grainy and blurred.

According to Engadget, the dual camera craze is real at MWC but Oppo decided to break from the pack with its own, very clever implementation. The company managed to build a 5x zooming system for smartphones using two sensors and a zoom mechanism inspired by periscopes. This is a feature which was once common on compact digital cameras, even ASUS have applied this to its ZenFone last year.

As per pocket-lint, various phones have attempted to deal with the zoom factor but Apple got the solution on the iPhone 7 Plus by putting two cameras on the back, with the second lens providing closer shot, effectively like a fixed zoom lens. It gets the user a closer to the action without having to pinch and digitally move in. The 2x zoom is perhaps a little unambitious, however as it is not a huge departure from a regular camera.

Much like the ZenFone Zoom's camera, the telephoto lens itself is capable of 3x optical zoom, and Oppo blends the images from the telephoto lens and a wide-view lens next to it between 1x and 5x zoom. After 5x, it is just the telephoto lens and digital zoom kicks in at some point between 5x and 10x. One wouldn't normally associate digital zoom with "lossless" quality, but Oppo swears that the system works like a charm. We'll be the judges of that, thanks very much.

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