This three-lens camera on the back of the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max looks as though it was borne out of the nest egg of an alien ship. Other smartphone makers have stacked three lenses in an elongated loop. Apple has decided to cluster these in a stamp-like square, as though it is stamping its mark and staking its claim in the settled land of three-lens phones.
The more critical thing is what the camera can do. It’s one of the biggest differentiators between the iPhone 11 Pro phones and the more modest iPhone 11. The iPhone 11 has two lenses, a wide-angle and ultrawide-angle lens with a 120-degree field of view. Both use 12-megapixel sensors. The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro max have both of those lensesand a telephoto lens. The wide-angle lens has an f/1.8 aperture, the ultra-wide has a f/2.4 aperture, and the telephoto has an f/2.0 aperture.