{"id":397018,"date":"2017-09-05T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/05\/apple-largan-above-12-megapixel-cameras\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T06:23:04","slug":"apple-takes-early-step-towards-iphones-with-above-12-megapixel-rear-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-takes-early-step-towards-iphones-with-above-12-megapixel-rear-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Takes Early Step Towards iPhones With &#8216;Above 12-Megapixel&#8217; Rear Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple reportedly has booked production capacity for &#8220;above 12-megapixel&#8221; camera lens modules at a new factory being built by smartphone lens maker Largan Precision in Taichung, Taiwan, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20170905PD200.html\">DigiTimes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/09\/iphone_7_plus_dual_camera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-521115\"\/><br \/>The report, citing &#8220;market rumors,&#8221; claims Largan is the only supplier that can meet Apple&#8217;s minimum yield rate. The new factory is reportedly designed to accommodate monthly production of 600 million lens modules.<\/p>\n<p>Largan will allegedly start production in October 2017, suggesting the camera lens modules could be destined for future iPhone models released in 2018 or later, rather than the so-called iPhone 8 this fall.<\/p>\n<p>It is widely rumored that the iPhone 8 will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-8\/#rear_cameras\">vertically-aligned dual-lens rear camera<\/a>, with optical image stabilization for both the wide-angle and telephoto lenses, but no credible rumors have surfaced about its quality.<\/p>\n<p>Apple improves its iPhone cameras each year, so an increased megapixel count of some kind is certainly still possible this year.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s latest iPhone and iPad models, including the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, 10.5-inch iPad Pro, and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, are all equipped with 12-megapixel rear-facing cameras and 7-megapixel front-facing cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that megapixels don&#8217;t always matter, as even a TV or monitor with 4K Ultra HD resolution of 3,840\u00d72,160 pixels only has roughly 8.3 megapixels, which isn&#8217;t enough to display a 12-megapixel photo at full resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if this rumor is accurate, then perhaps we&#8217;ll see an iPhone with a 16- or 18-megapixel rear camera or higher in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple reportedly has booked production capacity for &#8220;above 12-megapixel&#8221; camera lens modules at a new factory being built by smartphone lens maker Largan Precision in Taichung, Taiwan, according to DigiTimes. The report, citing &#8220;market rumors,&#8221; claims Largan is the only supplier that can meet Apple&#8217;s minimum yield rate. The new factory is reportedly designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":397019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-397018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}