Samsung to deliver a 250MP sensor

29 April 2020
It would be even bigger than the current 108MP nona-cell sensor in the Galaxy S20 Ultra.

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Anonymous, 30 Apr 2020Samsung is clever. They know chinese brands will buy. No... moreNot so clever since they didn't expect those Chinese companies who had bought Samsung sensors to be ahead of them. Look at what happened to Mi 10 Pro & S20 Ultra, Samsung (and many people on the internet) assumed Xiaomi bought an inferiour version of 108MP sensor and Samsung saved the best for themselves, it turned out that Mi 10 Pro produces better looking photos than S20 Ultra in most cases.

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    Ej, 30 Apr 2020Samsung is having desperate times to be doing this. 150MP... moreActually they don't use it themselves. They selling it to other brands like Xiaomi or OnePlus.

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      • Anonymous
      • 3Rs
      • 30 Apr 2020

      s20 ultra disappointing quality. 250 mp will be even worse on tiny phone.

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        • NJ8
        • 30 Apr 2020

        More megapixel is nothing if the quality of the camera is shi*#y. I would rather have less megapixel than a camera that cannot properly do an auto-focus. Think clearly Samsung!

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          • Anonymous
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          • 30 Apr 2020

          Oh boy now we're gonna get "108mp is absolutely microscopic garbage" comments! Can't wait for 500mp sensors to be released so that 250mp can be ridiculed too, the same way that literally every mainstream spec is shunned because some freak fringe smartphone exists with 2-3x a higher number! People are already ridiculing 4nm chipsets simply because >3nm DEVELOPMENT has started.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 30 Apr 2020

            Anonymous, 30 Apr 2020Samsung is clever. They know chinese brands will buy. No... moreLook at the 25mp images from HM1 Sensor on Mi 10 Pro.
            It literally destroys other 12mp sensors in terms of detail in daylight.
            Noise is also pretty much well under limits. Color accuracy is great too.

            Higher Mp resolution can provide 8k video, Pixel binned video in low light which will be way brighter than regular non pixel binned ones, added zoom functionality.
            Also the sensors are far bigger than most 12mp ones.

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              • Anonymous
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              • 30 Apr 2020

              AnonD-754814, 30 Apr 2020I don't know why people complain about the high resolution ... moreExactly these guys aren't comparing real world results.
              Only advantage for low end Dslr is in RAW mode.
              Plenty of scenes where smartphones in Auto mode are getting the better of Dslr.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 30 Apr 2020

                Anonymous, 30 Apr 202016MP Panasonic GH5 can wipe the floor with any cell phone. ... moreRX100 doesn't destroy anything in the smartphone world.
                Tests have already been done on YouTube showing Smartphone cameras as the compact choice to go for.
                Smartphone cameras have come a long way.

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                  • Anonymous
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                  • 30 Apr 2020

                  Exyvia, 30 Apr 2020Not sure about innovation. These sensors are smaller th... more108mp HM1 sensor on S20 ultra gives same effective micron pixel size as an equivalent 20Mp 1 inch sensor such as the Panasonic lumix Cm1.

                  Afcourse they weren't able to extract the full potential of the nona Bayer sensor, software wise. Who knows, it might even improve down the road.

                  Higher megapixel to achieve larger effective pixel size combined with computational photography is the future. So 250mp sensor can make sense as long as image processing software is optimized for the same. Nona Bayer Algorithms will improve with time as well.

                    In a decade or less, Samsung will make the first Gigapixel sensor on a phone which is normally used on Satellites and some spy planes that need so much details for everyone to see from above. Sure they are cheating with multiple bayers unlike the ones I mentioned but that's what made it possible.

                      LilPhone, 30 Apr 2020And many of those innovations are a failure. 120Hz displ... moreYour comment is full of inaccuracies, and in general is just nonsense. You make it pretty obvious that you're not genuine and just hate Samsung. Without them, you wouldn't even have phones from the Chinese. Most phones are made with Samsung parts. The green tint issue has been fixed with a software update, so it's not hardware. The 108 MP sensor on the S20 isn't the same as the one on the cheap Chinese phone. It functions exactly as it should, but simple people don't understand the focal length. Samsung's mistake is expecting people to be intelligent enough to understand.

                        AnonD-909757, 30 Apr 2020And they are also gonna deliver a 20 and 50 times faster me... moreDitto to paragraph 2. Drives me potty.

                          Ej, 30 Apr 2020Samsung is having desperate times to be doing this. 150MP... moreThey are all at it. Look how many devices incorporate cameras above 40mp. This and other websites have a new phone every day that is hitting big MP numbers. Very few beat the 12mp in Pixels and iPhones. Seriously need HTC and Nokia to re-employ their respective imaging experts from the last 10yrs, we'd have some proper competition. Outside of Huawei, I see no other manufacturers doing anything but increasing spec numbers.

                            Dometalican, 30 Apr 2020You know, instead of these gargantuan pixel counts, I wish ... moreDedicated image processors aren't supported in Android. And I'm not in hope for a camera-centric smartphone by Microsoft or Apple.

                              Whackcar, 30 Apr 2020S20 Ultra was supposed to take a leap in Mobile photography... moreExactly my thoughts. Could be 1000mp, but if stills don't beat the Pixel 4, or iPhone, you are wasting electric. Samsung usually has poor algorithms behind their sensors in their own devices. Leaves me wanting.

                                Micorriza, 29 Apr 2020not so much of a big deal... MP is a direct number, so the ... moreExcept for Pixels, if they still sell them.

                                  JDK, 30 Apr 2020In most cases, yes, higher resolution sensor generally mean... moreSamsung left dedicated camera market around 2015. But they made some great APS-C cameras and matching lenses until then.

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                                    JDK, 30 Apr 2020In most cases, yes, higher resolution sensor generally mean... more50MP is more than enough, look at Sony having 12MP sensor on their phone and still making really good shots that get really high scores in many picture benchmarks, on the Xperia 1 II they even got to the point that the latest premium phone they make still have "only" 12MP.
                                    They are the sister company of the Sony who made the IMX689 and IMX700 who have the latest autofocus tech, if they really considered they needed to increase MegaPixel count, it would be easy for them.

                                    Increasing megapixels is only good when you have lots of AI and autoprocessing that take a lot of sensors (including ToF) to gather as much data to make the picture gaining details that the small sensor size isn't able to get in good enough quality.

                                    Don't they won't put 600MP on Smartphones, actually wait until some smartass began making sensors using lithography and make more than a sensor per µm so in a 1x1cm sensor there are literally 1Mx1M = 1TP sensors xD
                                    I mean, look at gaming mouse and the crazy stupid DPI race they had, nowaday it stopped, but they used to make mouse with even more DPI than the other and reaching order of magnitudes over what anyone would ever use...

                                    Peoples are really stupid, you tell they, "hey, to have a fulldisplay we put a hole in the display, but don't worry, a camera that will try to see through an opaque display is incoming, even if we struggle for years with millions wasted on that and that it will probably cost an arm, you'll love it."
                                    They buy it, same with MP, you create a 1ExaPixel sensor that will still do binning and get 12MP pictures with many artifacts, just because the number are big, peoples will buy it over something that simply have a bigger sensor of more useful megapixel count.

                                    Even the old Lumia pureview models are still relevant quality wise, not because of their MP count but because of the big sensor size, and mind you that they are dinosaurs for today, yet they can match some middle range.

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                                      • 30 Apr 2020

                                      AnonD-754814, 30 Apr 2020I don't know why people complain about the high resolution ... more16MP Panasonic GH5 can wipe the floor with any cell phone.
                                      No matter the resolution.
                                      20MP Sony RX100 easily destroys cellphones.

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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 30 Apr 2020

                                        250 MP... 25 Bayer?

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