Question re optical vs. digital zoom on different iPhones

I’d say not really. The iPhone camera system can use information from all three lenses to construct a photo. More than likely a 2x photos would be mostly a cropped photo from the 3x lens, but it might also gain light and color information from the 1x lens. It may depend on light conditions as well.

Also see for example this thread: iPhone 13 Pro digital zoom

But we’ll know a lot more next week. The camera may be completely different for the 14.

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