The Xiaomi 14 Ultra features a Leica quad-camera configuration offering a remarkable range of focal lengths from 12mm to 120mm. With its main camera boasting a multi-step variable aperture from ƒ/1.63 to ƒ/4.0, users can seamlessly adjust exposure in diverse scenarios. Equipped with an ultra-large 1-inch LYT-900 image sensor, the Xiaomi 14 Ultra ensures outstanding image quality even in challenging environments. The variable aperture in combination with multiple focus settings allows users to engage in professional street photography. By increasing the aperture from f/1.8 to f/1.63, light gathering is significantly improved over its predecessor, allowing you to capture stunning detail in low light.

The Xiaomi 14 features a comprehensive triple-camera configuration, providing a well-rounded photography experience, covering an extensive focal range from 14mm to 75mm. Additionally, it has been engineered with Leica Summilux optical lenses with an upgraded ƒ/1.6 aperture on the main camera, combined with the Light Fusion 900 image sensor. Moreover, the resolution of the Leica 14mm ultra-wide camera has been upgraded to 50MP while also offering the highly acclaimed Leica 75mm telephoto camera with a floating focus group, with a minimum focus distance of just 10cm.

As with the Xiaomi 13 series, consumers can also choose between the "Leica Authentic Look" and the "Leica Vibrant Look", two different image profiles. The "Leica Authentic Look" was specially developed by Leica and will delight customers with smartphone images in the iconic "Leica Image Look". It focuses on aesthetically pleasing and natural color reproduction, well-drawn shadows, realistic local contrasts, and excellent reproduction of fine details. In addition, the "Authentic Look" features reduced vignetting correction to achieve minimal light fall-off between the center and corners of the image, giving it the typical look of a picture taken with a Leica Summilux lens. 

The "Leica Vibrant Look" was developed jointly by Xiaomi and Leica. Combining Xiaomi's expertise in smartphone photography with Leica's signature image aesthetics, this look allows photographers to perfectly capture the emotion of the moment in a vivid yet realistic color world.

The core concept "Leica Optics" is proven to be one of the reasons for the success of the co-engineered products. Consequently, in June 2023, both, the Leica Camera AG and Xiaomi management team decided to establish a joint optics-centered institute.

The Xiaomi x Leica Optical Institute is a joint optics-centered institute, founded by Xiaomi and Leica Camera AG, located at Beijing Xiaomi Campus, spanning a total area of 2644m². It focuses on a close collaboration on-site to further intensify cooperation in the areas of pre-development and research with the goal to develop a new quality standard for image quality and optical imaging performance in smartphone photography. Its core areas of research are optics, including optical films, plane optics, diffraction optics, precision optical machining, optical materials, precision optical test equipment and other subfields of technology.