Samsung introduces 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor for Galaxy S23 Ultra

17 January 2023
The sensor is 1/1.3” in size with 0.6 um pixels and is the company's most advanced sensor yet.

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  • Anonymous
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  • 17 Jan 2023

Good for macro photo.

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    • JeffSF
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    • 17 Jan 2023

    A lot of hype, but when it comes to GSMARENA camera test, all the fuss meltdown...

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      • 17 Jan 2023

      vrvly, 17 Jan 2023200mp at 15fps got my attention. Not sure if cloud services... moreHow sharp you wonder.
      Your eyes will bleed just from looking at 200 MP downsampled images at 0.7MP

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        • Anonymous
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        • 17 Jan 2023

        SirArtur, 17 Jan 2023I did. My gf has Iphone 14 PRO and I had for a couple of da... morei got an s22 ultra as well and didn't have any immense problems. i switched from a huawei mate 20 pro (2018) which was already a camera beast for its time. the s22 ultra is preety good actually. night mode is great, telephoto is great, everything is geat. except ultra-wide, that one produces not so great images due to partially blurred areas in the pictures and no impressive detail. i would never dare to say it would be worse than iphone 14 pro.

          Nick Tegrataker, 17 Jan 2023Given how flawed his test was (Only 3 compressed photos to ... morePretty useful when the context is based on social media or what the masses prefer...

          Usually the masses just want a bright picture.. that might not be great picture quality nfor a professional

          But that's what the masses want it is what it is

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            • Anonymous
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            • 17 Jan 2023

            Anonymous, 17 Jan 2023I dont understand why are all these manufacturers wasting t... moreits what currently possible for making the sensor better in maker side
            if they can find another else that vastly improve image-quality they will already done it before u saying it

              Meanwhile

              Omnivision OV50H.. 1.2 micron

                200mp at 15fps got my attention. Not sure if cloud services are ready for this...
                I'm also eager to see how this 200mp looks on social media when downsized to 0.7mp (sadly).

                  A traditional CMOS seems to work better than Quad-Bayer sensors.
                  So a 48MP-QB sensor which crops into 12MP, seems to perform worse than a standard 12MP sensor. So instead of a 200MP-QB sensor which crops into 50MP, it's better to have a 33.2MP standard sensor.

                  At least when it comes to Point'n'Shoot cameras and Smartphones.

                  But if you have a phone like the Xiaomi 12S Ultra-Leica, that has a big sensor, decent glass on top, and an attachment ring for Professional Lenses... yeah, in that case, I would go with the QuadBayer sensor. It's because the DLSR Lens can take advantage of those extra MegaPickles and produce some stunning photography.

                  Otherwise, we're talking about Point'n'Shoot performance, and they just need to go back to the proven basics. These fancy sensors really don't help as much as you'd think, but it is a wet dream for the marketing department.

                    Anonymous, 17 Jan 2023To compare you need to downscale samsung to 48 first. I did. My gf has Iphone 14 PRO and I had for a couple of days Samsung S22 Ultra from my friend, who works for Samsung, as I want to switch to something newer, from OP 7T PRO, which I have. Samsung that I got was a unit with Exynos. And, my gosh, I was so disappointed with the picture quality with the main sensor. Crushed shadows all the time, details level not even comparable as for me to the Iphone for almost all the time. And RAWs... well, from the main app, very noisy and with very limited DR, and from the Expert RAW - DR very nice, but the picture was sooo processed, the noise reduction on the level, that in my flat, with OnePlus 7T pro and GCam 8.4 I was able to have better results in more than 70%. I was adding photos taken in the same time from all 3 phones to Lightroom and trying to analyze and push them. JPGs, RAWs, full res and 12Mpix. As I don't like Iphone and do not want to have it as my next daily, their implementation of the RAWs is so much better. And in most cases, JPGs out of the box are better as well.

                      Nick Tegrataker, 17 Jan 2023It is quite interesting that this sensor can capture an HDR... moreRead the article again. Better go to the main website of HP2

                      First of all it doesn't take 200MP HDR only up to 50MP
                      Second, Dual Slope Gain and Smart-ISO Pro are similar but not the same.

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                        • Anonymous
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                        • 17 Jan 2023

                        I dont understand why are all these manufacturers wasting their money on rnd ti get more mps in the same sensor?it makes no difference,just spend more money in making the sensor actually better

                          potato4k, 17 Jan 2023I think that's more of Apple and some Chinese phone pr... moreAt least Vivo offers "Zeiss Natural Colors" mode. What does Samsung offer? Besides ridiculous looking colors?

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                            • t7X
                            • 17 Jan 2023

                            ahh.. This censor is made for Expert Raw

                              Nameless, 17 Jan 2023"enhance color reproduction" means ugly colors wi... moreI think that's more of Apple and some Chinese phone problems. Samsung and Pixel seem to start scaling back on the HDR and saturation algorithm.

                                So it is basically the GN1 sensor (the 50MP one used on Pixel 7 & 7 pro) with each 1.2um pixel sub-divided into 4 smaller 0.6 pixels now.

                                And pixel size is smaller than the 0.64um on HP1 sensor, so I am skeptical if it will be better than that sensor as Samsung claims. Personally, I would have liked to see a bigger pixel pitch, say 0.7um. In other words, Samsung could have used the same sensor size as GN2 sensor (1/1.12", 1.4 um pixels).

                                  Might not be one inch but 200MP on a small sensor is still a feat.

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 17 Jan 2023

                                    SirArtur, 17 Jan 2023It is a bit higher only. The only good implementation of th... moreTo compare you need to downscale samsung to 48 first.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • Lkg
                                      • 17 Jan 2023

                                      After using phone with isocell sensor, pretty clear to me it is less light sensitive than exmor counterpart.

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                                        • 17 Jan 2023

                                        Nick Tegrataker, 17 Jan 2023It is quite interesting that this sensor can capture an HDR... moreYou have added an extra zero. Correct is not enough for 20MP.
                                        Please, it is 2023. Dont not start again with the whole " plastic can be on pair with glass" to justify cheap plastic lenses used by samsung, apple, oppo and huawei.

                                        All look muddy on decent screen. ( Decent screen does not include tvs or laptops)

                                        Xiaomi never had glass element but at least it is better quakity than other plastic used by these.

                                        Expensive phones should have at least 1 glass like 90 pro+ and pro-i.

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