https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/12/iphone-15-pro-max-telephoto/

At Apple’s event today, the phone maker showed off its new iPhone 15 Pro Max, with its flagship camera capabilities. Sure, Pixel owners might giggle to themselves, muttering something about how they’ve had 5x telephoto lenses for a while, but photography aficionados will be celebrating the introduction of a 120mm-equivalent lens. Despite Apple’s claims in the keynote, I doubt that the long-range peeper will cut it for sports or wildlife photography, but it’s an extremely usable focal length for portraiture, and gets you just that tiny bit closer to the action.

The camera on the iPhone 14 Pro Max was already excellent, but the newest generation flagship is going far beyond: This Titanium-clad pocket warrior packs a 25% larger sensor, a f/2.8 aperture and, of course, the aforementioned 5x telephoto lens. The non-Max version of iPhone 15 Pro gets a 77mm lens – not bad, but a significant downgrade for the photographically inclined among us, compared to its bigger brother.