Samsung’s imaging workforce has give you a brand new design for a folded telephoto digital camera module that might enable for a brighter lens (f/2.58 at 80mm) and a thinner total footprint.
Referred to as ALoP (All Lenses on Prism), it primarily strikes the lens array on prime of the periscope prism, as an alternative of in between the prism and the imaging sensor, as it’s in a traditional folded design.
It is because in a typical folded telephoto module design, growing the pupil diameter of the lens (making it wider and brighter) would enhance the module’s peak. With ALoP know-how, you possibly can have a wider lens diameter with out making all the module larger.
So with ALoP, periscope cameras can have brighter lenses, main to raised low-light efficiency.
A traditional folded telephoto vs Samsung’s ALoP design
Samsung’s ICOCELL workforce says this design is 22% shorter than a traditional periscope and it makes use of a 40Ëš-tilted prism reflection floor and 10Ëš-tilted sensor meeting.
You’ll be able to see within the photos beneath the drastic discount in module size and the discount within the thickness of the module.
The thickness present within the photos might not appear large, nevertheless it permits for a smaller digital camera bump, which is a precedence for a lot of consumers.
A traditional periscope vs Samsung’s ALoP design
Samsung is not saying once we’ll see this new tech in motion however a good guess is on the Galaxy S25 collection.
