it oversamples. for a 5 MP image, 7 MP are used to produce 1 MP. you get better image quality and noise filtering because of the oversampling
What bias? Bigger pixels mean more light; more pixels mean smaller pixels, sensor size being equal (which it necessarily is here). Adding that many pixels to a small-sensor camera is easy, but it's nonsensical if quality is your goal.
With a sensor that small, 41MP will produce extremely noisy photos. They have the logic wrong on this, unless we're talking about daylight shots.
That sounds really awesome actually! Why isn't this implemented in more cameras? Is it a new tech/concept?
You should do some research or read what is 41M is all about.
"That 41-megapixel camera is capable of capturing 34 and 38 megapixel-photos in 16:9 or 4:3, but when it takes that high-res image the 1020 is also saving what Elop calls a 5-megapixel oversampled image. Each of the pixels in those oversampled photos is composed of up to 7 pixels captured by the sensor (HTC did something similar on a smaller scale with the Ones UltraPixel camera), which makes for some richly detailed photos for sharing. Nokias Floating Lens stabilization technology seen in devices like the Lumia 920 has also been reworked to support the 1020′s hefty sensor."
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It makes 8megapixel shots look amazing.
That sounds really awesome actually! Why isn't this implemented in more cameras? Is it a new tech/concept?
In this thread, ignorant people who know absolutely nothing about lenses and digital photography.
It rolls right off the tongue. Nokia Lumia 1020304050... oops
41 megapixels in a sensor that small!? I'm expecting noise and poor low light performance. If they can pull it off without that then Nikon, Canon and all the rest may as well be out of business.
Better hope they give you tonnes of internal memory too - I'm not buying big expensive SD cards as well as a phone.
Yep, I had a kernel panic just like that a few days ago, but it was the first one in at least a few years.Oh Yes, because my Mac's never crash.....
Judging by the leaked photos 'from this phone', it's exactly as expected. It's 41MP alright, but not a good 41MP.
The photos are full of noise and chromatic aberrations, and they're not particularly sharp.
I hope they're not the real photos from this phone, because if they are then all they've focused on (pun slightly intended) is cramming 41 million pixels into a phone, and not payed much attention to the quality of the sensor, optics or compression.
It looks half-hearted to say the least.
and dSLRs.
Heck, at 41MP, people will need TB's of storage on their phones if shooting RAW
Yes. Just like cheese, yogurt and butter are all just "milk."
6 lens? I think they mean 6 element? Anyway, 41 MP is absurd, that's like medium format, but I'm guessing the pictures are not anything like a Hasselblad or Phase One. Going to be funny watching people trying to text dozens of these pics.
Must be a slow Apple news day...