Realme interchangeable lens idea hands-on

Realme’s primary focal point at this yr’s Cell International Congress is to release its 14 Professional collection in Europe, however the corporate did somewhat aspect quest too.

Meet the Realme interchangeable lens idea – a Realme smartphone that may mount Leica M lenses on its again!

Sooner than we move mounting lenses on, let us take a look at the underlying telephone. It is a Realme smartphone operating 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 digital camera island with two cameras – a large and ultrawide, in conjunction with a customized 1-inch kind Sony-made sensor with out optics.

The digital camera island’s body is a type of particular mount, which is able to take a Leica M mount screw-on adapter, which lets you connect Leica M lenses.

That implies that each one of Leica’s substantial lens choices are to be had to you – the Leica M is the oldest actively used digital camera mount these days.

Realme had a 73mm (round 3x) and a 230mm (10x) identical lenses. Then again, if you are supplying your individual lenses, you’ll want to account for the crop issue, which is round 2.47 for a 1-inch kind telephone sensor.

That may make a vintage 50mm lens (round a 2x in comparison to a telephone’s primary sensor) a 123mm, or round 5.4x.

Realme is not first to the idea that. 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 turn out an engineering level – a bragging proper greater than a product the corporate will mass-produce and promote to consumers.

So this Realme is not coming to a shop close to you. However it is nonetheless refreshing to peer such zest for innovation again on the Cell International Congress flooring after a couple of stagnant years of standard telephones.