Realme’s principal focus at this yr’s Cell World Congress is to launch its 14 Professional sequence in Europe, however the firm did somewhat aspect quest too.
Meet the Realme interchangeable lens idea – a Realme smartphone that may mount Leica M lenses on its again!
Earlier than we go mounting lenses on, let us take a look at the underlying telephone. It is a Realme smartphone working a two-year-old Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The again is paying homage to Xiaomi’s 15 Extremely in its dual-tone Silver Chrome.
The Realme has a glass-covered digicam island with two cameras – a large and ultrawide, together with a customized 1-inch kind Sony-made sensor with out optics.
The digicam island’s body is a type of particular mount, which might take a Leica M mount screw-on adapter, which lets you connect Leica M lenses.
That signifies that all of Leica’s appreciable lens choices can be found to you – the Leica M is the oldest actively used digicam mount at this time.
Realme had a 73mm (round 3x) and a 230mm (10x) equal lenses. Nonetheless, for those who’re supplying your personal lenses, you’d must account for the crop issue, which is round 2.47 for a 1-inch kind telephone sensor.
That may make a traditional 50mm lens (round a 2x in comparison with a telephone’s principal sensor) a 123mm, or round 5.4x.
Realme is not first to the idea. We noticed the very same factor again in 2022, when Xiaomi confirmed a 12S Extremely that would mount Leica M lenses.
Anyway, idea telephones are made to show an engineering level – a bragging proper greater than a product the corporate will mass-produce and promote to clients.
So this Realme is not coming to a retailer close to you. But it surely’s nonetheless refreshing to see such zest for innovation again on the Cell World Congress floor after a number of stagnant years of standard telephones.
