New information from the Chinese site Weibo gives more details on how Sony is preparing its future high-end cameras. These should come to equip the next premium smartphones of the Japanese manufacturer.
Sony would prepare some surprises for our smartphone cameras. Rather accustomed to regularly launching new sensors on the market to equip devices from other manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi or Oppo, the Japanese giant would plan to use it first this time.
According to the leaker Digital Chat StationSony would thus launch a new high-end lens that would no longer rely solely on its megapixel count to outperform older models.
Good sensors in video, but also in photos
This new sensor would this time not only rely on larger pixels and capturing more light to take better shots, but it would ship a 1 / 1.49 inch sensor recording in 16:11 format for videos with more of light and also a more fluid capture. As for the photo part, the sensor would return to a more traditional 4:3 format and would only use part of its surface for this, ie 1/1.56 inch. It would thus allow optimal shooting in video while ensuring the photo part, which does not have the same needs.
These new sensors, known as the “IMX 800 series”, would then give a glimpse of the future of smartphone photography, more precisely with the IMX866 variant, a 50 Mpx sensor supposed to be fitted to our future flagships and which should replace the current one. IMX766.
A new pixel color for more detail
Sony would also improve the color matrix of its sensors. We would no longer only be entitled to red, green and blue pixels, but also to white pixels which would allow better light collection and greater precision in the colors rendered.
Sony would therefore opt for a new approach in order to obtain better images without relying on the definition of the sensor alone to achieve this. Other manufacturers have, for their part, decided to follow another path, such as Samsung, which unveiled the Isocell HP1, its new 200 Mpx sensor, at the end of last year.
Time will tell which of these two approaches is the best, in any case it will have less merit in making us think about what makes a good sensor.
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