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Samsung rumoured to be developing an insane 150-megapixel 1″ sensor for a smartphone coming in Q4

Mar 20, 2020 by John Aldred Add Comment

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If we needed any more evidence that the megapixel wars had shifted from DSLRs and mirrorless cameras to phones, then this is it. According to GizChina, Samsung is developing a 150-megapixel 1″ sensor for smartphones. Yes, a sensor similar in size to that found in cameras like the Sony RX100 series is going into a smartphone. Specifically, a Xiaomi smartphone and it’ll happen before the end of this year.

A 1″ sensor is significantly larger than Samsung’s 1/1.33″ ISOCELL Bright HMX, their first 108-megapixel smartphone sensor, but it will use “nonacell pixel binning” technology. It works a bit like the quad Bayer sensors we see today, which turn a 64-megapixel photograph into a 14-megapixel final image. In this case, though, instead of combining four pixels into one, with the “nonacell” system, 9 pixels are used to create each one in the final result.

This means that the final result from this 150-megapixel sensor will actually only be around 16-megapixels. But this combination of extra pixels, along with the physically increased size of the new sensor, should mean that ultimately we get a better result than the lower resolution quad Bayer sensors currently found in many medium and high-end smartphones.

GizChina also reports that this sensor will be available before the end of the year, with Xiaomi set to announce a smartphone that uses it in the fourth quarter of 2020. OPPO and VIVO are also expected to launch their devices in Q1 2020.

I love that we’re starting to see these higher megapixel sensors inside phones, with the funky “computational imaging” and pixel combining/binning they’re doing to try to improve the final image quality. I do wish more of them would let us access those full resolution unprocessed raw files, though. Even if they suck, it’s interesting to see what the phone’s software is using as a starting point.

[GizChina via GSMArena]

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John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

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