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phone photography has come on so far in the last few years there's something that could still use a little improvement is actually it's zooming in we're taking a look now at something that hopes to improve that so this is a dual camera system it's part of a collaboration between an Israeli startup called core photonics and Qualcomm here's how it works this module itself has two camera lenses they're both 13 megapixel cameras however one is a standard wide-angle lens like you get in most smartphones and one is a special telephoto lens now when the images from those two lenses are combined what you get is an image that's capable of up to 3 times optical zoom in stills what's cool is that it achieves that even though there are no moving parts in here in normal cameras the chunkier kind when you zoom in their actual moving parts but here everything's fixed we've been looking at some demos and I have to say it looks like by combining those two lenses you get a really crisp photo you can see in the difference here not only is there less noise but there's just so much more clarity to it uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip and this could potentially be good as well for low-light photography and that's because there are two lenses so you just get more light taken in it's really interesting tech hopefully it'll appear in some real smart phones that we can actually buy before too long so that we can really put it to the test I'm the Questor HSC net 2 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona check out cnet.com for loads more you