This 10x zoom flagship aims to make telephoto converters obsolete

Ultra flagships from Chinese OEMs sport some of the best technology you’ll find in phones, and this year’s lineup doubles down on cameras in all the right ways. Xiaomi has already launched Xiaomi 17 Ultrawhile preparing to launch vivo vivo X300 Ultra. OPPO is not to be left behind as the company has confirmed the global launch of its flagship OPPO Find X9 Ultra and its innovative 10x optical zoom camera that uses five reverse prisms.

Met Zhou Shijie, OPPO’s Product Manager Weibo Sharing the Find X9 Ultra’s 50MP 10x optical zoom camera and the innovation that makes it possible. The biggest highlight is the five reflection prisms, as each reflection in the optical path of the periscope adds to the engineering challenge.

This periscope zoom setup uses a proprietary JNL 50MP sensor with an f.3.5 aperture. There’s also “gimbal-level” OIS onboard. With this camera setup, OPPO promises 10x optical zoom with a 230mm focal length and 460mm 20x “optical quality” zoom.

OPPO does all this in a smaller camera module as well. A conventional L-shaped periscope telephoto module can reach 41mm in length for the same 10x zoom level. Using five reflective prisms, OPPO has reduced the length of the module to 29mm, although it’s worth noting that the lenses now sit on top of the prism, so the module could potentially be thicker.

OPPO CEO Pete Lau accepted this X it should be said that phone manufacturers adopted external telephoto converters because it was too difficult to build a 10x zoom camera into a phone. But with the Find X9 Ultra, OPPO has managed to deliver the same level of quality by eliminating the need for a telephoto converter.

OPPO is confident enough with this app that it calls it the Hasselblad 10x Optical Telephoto Lens on the Find X9 Ultra. It should be noted that it was also observed with OPPO Find X9 Ultra its own external telephoto converterand existing phones like the Find X9 Pro also have their own features.

So is Pete confirmed The Find X9 Ultra goes on sale globally in April. Leaker Yogesh Brar shamelessly he answered“I’m looking forward to the 20th,” he says, adding that the launch date could be the 20th.

Leaks suggest that the Find X9 Ultra will come with a 200MP main sensor, a 200MP 3x periscope telephoto camera, a 50MP ultra-wide and a 50MP selfie (front) camera in addition to this 50MP 10x periscope telephoto camera. That’s a lot of big cameras, so it remains to be seen how big and wild the camera module will be. We will soon find out.