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hello tech fans we're taking a look today at core photonics camera technology now this is a company that we saw a couple of years ago what they're doing is trying to combine two camera units into a single smartphone component in a bid to get you better zoom when you're taking photos with your phone so let's take a look at what's new so if you look inside this little unit here you can see there's actually two camera sensors and what's going on here is that though both sensors are bringing in light from the subject that you're looking at and then using some complicated software those are combined to try and give you a very very clear image the idea is to bring you optical zoom on a smartphone with no moving parts which is quite a claim previously when we saw it it could do three times zoom now it can do five times we've saw a little demonstration here and say it was pretty impressive so over on the left side of the screen here you can see what's happening when just one of those sensors is zoomed in on this demonstration board here and then on the right side you can see what happens when both sensors are bringing their powers to bear and it does look a lot sharper now we put this to the test using one of our own phones we used an iPhone 6s plus and we zoomed in as well using the board and I have to say that our test shots came out as blurry as what you can see on the left side of the screen we weren't able to get the same zoom that both sensors can get together companies also found a very interesting way of bouncing light off of a prism onto the sensors one of those cameras which it says cuts down on the size that the actual unit needs to be and we're also taking a look at some interesting stabilization technology you can see this gimbal here moving and when the company turns on its stabilization software the image on the screen becomes a lot more steady so cool photonics says that we can expect to see this technology in actual smartphones available to buy sometime this year so fingers crossed we're looking forward to giving it the full test end for much more check out cnet.com slash