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Apple Supplier Sony Debuts 21-Megapixel Image Sensor With Ultra Fast Autofocus, 4K HDR Video
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Exactly. Apple won't even grant 5GB of storage per device, which would be completely reasonable, because they want your MRC.
It's going to further cannabolize the point and shoot camera market, but you'll be delusional if you think these sensors will compete with DSLR sensors.
Thought Sony has this in their Xperia Z3...
Now they are focusing on becoming a supplier instead of bleeding cash in their smartphone department...?
Now they are focusing on becoming a supplier instead of bleeding cash in their smartphone department...?
Apreciate your thoughtfulness, but please go back and re-read my original post: "Yes it's better than before (iP6 camera), but still takes crappy low-light and blurry moving object photos."
This is fact. Apple's iPhone 6 "image sensors" as you put it still take crapy low light photos and blurry moving object photos.
Other mobile phone manufacturer's of late are doing a better job with implementing better tech into their mobile phone cameras and "image sensors". So what's the debate here?
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Please explain to me, how exactly would increasing megapixel count to 12 solve those issues? Every phone camera will take a blurry shot of a moving object, UNLESS! picture is taken in good light (so the exposure time can be pretty short (1/500 s or less)), OR the picture is taken using xenon flash (which practically no phone uses) which gives plenty of light for the exposure time to still be very low.
You can obviously manually set exposure time to be relatively low even in bad light, but you'll most likely end up with underexposed or noisy image.
Please find me camera phone which takes better low light photos than iPhone 6 (and especially 6 Plus). All the reviews found that it's the best mobile phone camera out there (including low light).
EDIT: If your post was sarcastic, next time please useas it is very hard lately to distinguish between smart (sarcasm) and stupidity and ignorance.
Sorry for the hurt feelings. How's this:
Better?There's a bunch of phone cameras that take better low-light photography. And remember, the iPhone 6+ has the better sensor than the plain 6 (which I am referring to in my OP). http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-smartphones-for-low-light-photography_id61145
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Thanks for such a great explanation of the design. If Apple can nearly triple the MPs while keeping the same pixel pitch, that will be worth the upgrade to a 6S.
I'm stoked.
That was my point. Small areas don't have enough photons hitting to be accurate.
Thanks for such a great explanation of the design. If Apple can nearly triple the MPs while keeping the same pixel pitch, that will be worth the upgrade to a 6S.
I'm stoked.
Not sure if you saw my edit, but it doesn't appear that this sensor is the same design as Sony is using. However, we may one day see this type of sensor in a future iPhone. It does seem possible through innovations in sensor tech to improve the megapixel count without reducing the image quality/noise.
I'm not talking about the quality of a crop, I'm talking about the resolution of a crop.
If I want to fill an a 3MP area with a crop that's equivalent to a decent "zoom level" the quality is a factor for how the results look like and how the image would upscale, if I so chose to. (digital zoom basically)
I still need to fill that area with pixels though.
The more pixels my original image has at reasonable quality the more I'm able to crop and still have a nicely sized image.
This is true for any kind of camera.
It's true that you don't want blurry resolutions though, just to have more MP without more actual quality, for that aspect please also refer to the post of mine I quoted down below:
I don't, please refer to this post of mine:
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I would disagree that 16 GB makes a modern smart phone usage virtually impossible. Using many modern apps to do all the normal things like email, text messaging, Facebook, Phone calls
As long as you're not trying to hold your entire music library or TV shows or movies and don't load up with a large storage games or other large storage activities, 16 GB is fine.
It really just depends on how you use your phone. A lot of people don't require the things that take lots of storage.
I occasionally take photos and video, but they accumulate over time and I want access to them. I have no music and a couple of small apps. My phone is full and I've run out of Apps to delete to make more room.
If I upgrade my phone, and kept the same storage, that would instantly be full too as everything would copy across.
By contrast I have 512GB in my Macbook and that is also nearly full, again this is mostly just my iPhoto library.
16GB was OK back when nobody had taken any photos on their new iPhones and Apps didn't include lots of retina resolution assets (some need 2-3GB of space to install). However, it's now nearly 2015 and we expect to be able to use a reasonable amount of the phone's features without running out of space.
Memory is cheap and Apple have a lot of money. It's time they stopped ripping people off with upgrade prices that don't reflect manufacturing costs.
It's very disappointing and it's one practice I really want to tell Tim Cook to stop since it's a real drag on the user experience but they cannot cannot give up such easy way to pad the margin.
Megapixels matter far less to me than sensor size, and light sensitivity.
Say hello to 10-20mb image file sizes!
My 1520 takes pictures of less than 6mb at 19 megapixels. And they look amazing.
Guess that would depend entirely on what compression algorithm the camera uses. The different camera makers use different algorithms, for the most part. Some try harder than others to compress it into smaller file sizes... at a cost in detail (which you probably couldn't notice unless you tried real hard to find it).
You can also select quality in the menu (low/medium/high) and picture size (small/medium/large). Again, depends entirely on the camera. I would assume that in most smart phones... you have a lot less options in terms of picture settings than you do in a point and shoot. I think most all phones are getting pretty damn good now a days.
The total area of the sensor doesn't change if you divide them into smaller pieces.
