Xiaomi reveals bonkers phone with bolted-on Leica lens that will make you look like a dork
Chinese smartphone darling has shown off a phone with a full camera lens bolted to its back – which looks very dorky, but thankfully is only a concept device.
The point of this concept version of Xiaomi's 12S Ultra smartphone is to imagine a smartphone capable of competing with a professional-grade camera by offering the facility to add a posh mountable Leica-M Lens – kit the optical outfit offers as ideal for use in mirrorless cameras.[PDF] with German optics and camera company Leica. The venture saw the current actually on sale 12S Ultra smartphone equipped with a 50-megapixel Sony IMX989 1-inch image sensor and a Vario-Summicron 13–120mm f/1.
A video released by Xiaomi said the original 12S and the concept version with mountable camera were designed concurrently. They both look like plain jane smartphones, but the concept version has a hidden feature that allows the Leica-M Lens to twist and click into place at the rear of the phone – just like it would on a Leica M-mount camera.
The concept phone has an additional one-inch sensor protected by scratch-resistant sapphire glass. Instead of using the original lens on the smartphone, it captures light directly from the external lens. Once the lens is un place, the device functions like a mirrorless camera that happens to have a Snapdragon 8+ Gen-1 chip inside.Xiaomi product PR tweeted a few different angles of the phone revealing how the device might feel and look in one's hands.
That's all fine and good, but no word on how often the awkward center of gravity makes the thing fly out of a user's hands. The $2,600 to $13,500 lenses – whose weights range from around
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