Is there any innovation in installing a microscope? Cell phone photos are completely beside the point.

Multi-cameras in mobile phones have become the norm, and the types of these cameras tend to be unified: the main camera, ultra-wide angle and telephoto are three standard cameras, but there are also many mobile phones with four cameras and five cameras. So what should these extra cameras be used for?

The first thing that many manufacturers think of is to make up the number. On the one hand, they can make up a scene with four shots to fill the light, on the other hand, the price is not too unreasonable, so there are things like depth-of-field lenses and black-and-white lenses, and the utilization rate is about zero.

Of course, the flagship mobile phone is embarrassed to use a few lenses and start stacking materials, such as 3D ToF lens and super telephoto lens, that is, two telephoto lenses. Relay zoom can achieve zoom of dozens or even hundreds of times, such as Huawei Mate 40 Pro+ and Samsung S2 1 Ultra.

100 zoom was fresh for a while when it first came out, and soon there was no topic, so this year some mobile phone manufacturers came up with a new idea-microscope.

OPPO gives a microscope head with a magnification of 30 times in the position of the fourth camera in Find X3 series (60 times is the effect of 2 times digital zoom). Attention is not macro, but micro.

At present, the recent focal length of most mobile phones is only 4cm, and its focal length is1~ 3 mm. Usually, in such a close situation, the picture is already dark and nothing can be seen, and this microscope can only take a clear picture if it is completely close.

What's the use of a microscope? Many people were exposed to microscopes when they were students. At that time, stained sections were used, and the magnification was 1000 times. The microscope of OPPO Find X3 is not for professional use, but more similar to microphotography.

30 times looks like a small number, but compared with traditional macro photography, there are still several times magnification differences. The following are the photos we took with the OPPO Find X3 microscope.

Thin translucent paper

Cross section of succulents

blade

Human skin

eyelash

Gold powder on RMB 100

KN95 mask surface

Cell phone screen pixel

The flash on the mobile phone

Dust in the handset of a mobile phone

The above photos taken by the microscope of OPPO Find X3, including the experience of shooting operation, are really surprising and bright enough to find pictures invisible to the naked eye. It's strange to use it for the first time.

But apart from being twice as fresh, what about practicality? After all, this mobile phone costs five or six thousand yuan. Can microscopes really be a decisive buying factor?

Furthermore, if you want to try microscope photography, you can actually do it at a very low cost, and the microscope head connected to the mobile phone can be well realized, and there is not much difference between the two in terms of actual shooting effect and operation experience. First, hand-held shooting, the picture is easy to shake and blur, if possible, it is best to use stable equipment, and second, it is more suitable for shooting plane objects.

For mobile phone manufacturers, whether it is a 100-fold magnification or a 60-fold microscope, the biggest role is ultimately marketing. As a popular product, the image application of mobile phone should be based on people's daily life scenes. After the first three cameras meet people's daily photography needs, there is really no need to take more pictures for the sake of taking more pictures.