Apple's new iPhone 13 Pro case illustrates massively enlarged camera 'bump'

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• Reply 1 of 10

  fastasleep Posts: 6,420member

  September 16, 2021 9:56PM

  Holy crap. I thought this was a regular iPhone in a Max case for a second. I noticed too that the ridge around the camera hole in the pic of the silicone cases looked super high. I am curious to see how cases will compensate for the depth of these camera systems, seems like fewer will allow the phone to lay flat. 
  

  
  

  I finally bit the bullet and got a case for my 12 Pro before going on vacation for a few weeks, got the Baltic Blue Leather Case and ended up liking it a lot more than I expected! One of the nice side effects was that it sits fully flat with a bit of clearance to the camera lenses. I’m curious if they’ll make the new leather cases thicker to do the same with these or if everything is going to need a lip around the camera. 

  
  

  Bring on the periscope cameras! 

  
• Reply 2 of 10

  rinosaur Posts: 32member

  September 16, 2021 11:35PM

  It also protrudes out FAR more
• Reply 3 of 10

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  September 16, 2021 11:48PM

  I'm guessing the pic is of the iPhone 13 Pro, not the Pro Max, because the hole size of the 13PM is about the same as the 11PM hole.
• Reply 4 of 10

  anantksundaram Posts: 20,404member

  September 17, 2021 1:34AM

  The bump has gotten to be a bloody eyesore and an annoyance design-wise. Apple's predilection for thinness meets utter laziness in camera design.
  
  At this rate, Apple might as well buy out a company like Nikon and stick one of its SLRs on the back or the iPhone. 
  

  
• Reply 5 of 10

  rinosaur Posts: 32member

  September 17, 2021 2:12AM

  anantksundaram said:

  The bump has gotten to be a bloody eyesore and an annoyance design-wise. Apple's predilection for thinness meets utter laziness in camera design.
  
  At this rate, Apple might as well buy out a company like Nikon and stick one of its SLRs on the back or the iPhone. 
  

  I understand the need to make the bump to accommodate a bigger sensor and more lenses but they should at least make it look good like the S21. 
• Reply 6 of 10

  waveparticle Posts: 1,497member

  September 17, 2021 3:03AM

  Apple single sourced iPhone lens from a company. There is not much choice for Apple designer to integrate the lens with the iPhone. 
• Reply 7 of 10

  Kuyangkoh Posts: 838member

  September 17, 2021 5:38AM

  waveparticle said:

  Apple single sourced iPhone lens from a company. There is not much choice for Apple designer to integrate the lens with the iPhone. 

  Is that part of the $50 billion that Apple purchased from US suppliers??
• Reply 8 of 10

  rcfa Posts: 1,124member

  September 17, 2021 4:13PM

  anantksundaram said:

  The bump has gotten to be a bloody eyesore and an annoyance design-wise. Apple's predilection for thinness meets utter laziness in camera design.
  
  At this rate, Apple might as well buy out a company like Nikon and stick one of its SLRs on the back or the iPhone. 
  

  What nonsense. You can’t change physics.
  
  You can either go back to tiny crappy cameras, or deal with it.
  
  ”tiny full range speakers” are just as impossibly as “tiny high quality cameras”.
  
  Study some physics before you run your mouth.
• Reply 9 of 10

  rcfa Posts: 1,124member

  September 17, 2021 4:23PM

  fastasleep said:

  
  

  Bring on the periscope cameras! 
  

  
  

  They won’t help in that regards: you still have front lenses, their mounts PLUS additional depth requirements for the prism behind the lens.
  
  Periscope lenses solve the issue of long focal length lenses (i.e. REAL telephoto lenses) by folding the optical path (what Apple currently claims to be telephoto may be a normal lens or at best a portrait lens, but calling something a tele below 100mm focal length in a 35mm format equivalent, is a joke.
  
  In any case: the bumps are here to stay, as shorter focal lengths can’t be folded and anti-shake mechanism, sensor, and optics simply require space.
  
  The one meaningful way of getting rid of the bump would be to make the phone thicker, allowing for more storage, battery, RAM, better cooling, and using the phone with keyboard and screen in desktop mode….
• Reply 10 of 10

  waveparticle Posts: 1,497member

  September 17, 2021 4:31PM

  rcfa said:

  fastasleep said:

  
  

  Bring on the periscope cameras! 
  

  
  

  They won’t help in that regards: you still have front lenses, their mounts PLUS additional depth requirements for the prism behind the lens.
  
  Periscope lenses solve the issue of long focal length lenses (i.e. REAL telephoto lenses) by folding the optical path (what Apple currently claims to be telephoto may be a normal lens or at best a portrait lens, but calling something a tele below 100mm focal length in a 35mm format equivalent, is a joke.
  
  In any case: the bumps are here to stay, as shorter focal lengths can’t be folded and anti-shake mechanism, sensor, and optics simply require space.
  
  The one meaningful way of getting rid of the bump would be to make the phone thicker, allowing for more storage, battery, RAM, better cooling, and using the phone with keyboard and screen in desktop mode….

  One solution is to mount the lens using the full depth of the phone instead of mounting on the board. But this is very difficult engineering.