Samsung announces the 50MP ISOCELL GNK sensor with improved dynamic range and video capabilities

04 November 2023
The sensor also supports 14-bit RAW image capture.

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About the same size as the sensor in the Xperia 1 V. Although it's less light sensitive. Still a good sensor just not as good as Sony's.

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      I want a mobile phone with sensors 1/2.4" or 1/2.33", 8 or 10 megapixels, no binning and 2 or 3 prime lenses (fixed focal length). An updated Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1.
      Focal lengths (36mm*24mm equivalent): 3 lenses: 24 or 28 mm, 50 mm and 85 mm or 2 lenses: 35 mm and 85 mm.
      85 mm focal length (equiv.) means ~15 mm real focal length. I want THICKER smartphones, say NO to thin smartphones. Thicker at the area of cameras.
      100 MP 1" sensor and 3x digital zoom equals 11 MP 1/3" sensor. Thicker phones and smaller sensors give BETTER image!
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        vexus, 05 Nov 2023+ ai generated faked moonAI enhanced, just like every single picture on every single smartphone in existence past 2020

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            Anton el duro, 04 Nov 2023The pixel 8 series uses a 4-year-old sensor, it is the GNV,... moreare you drunk? :P

            The GN1 was released Q2 2020 (less than 3 and half years). The GNV was realeased with the Vivo X80 serie in 2022

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              uk7866, 04 Nov 2023Pixel 8 Pro is using thisBased on what? people instantly "confirming" it based on same sensor size, just like it was with GNV.

              P8 Pro don't seem to even have or utilize most of this sensor capabilities.

                dcdev, 05 Nov 2023It doesn't work this way. You can change camera lense... moreWith bigger sensor you can use 2x or even 4x crop without detail loss. Even 2x crop on the 200MP looks bad in lr editing. The tiny phone camera sensor simply can't handle it after all. That's why I keep saying they need a bigger sensor and better optics, instead of more megapixels.

                  dcdev, 05 Nov 2023It doesn't work this way. You can change camera lense... moreHave you tried astrophotography with 35mm against 24mm? Especially aurora. Even 24mm simply isn't wide enough. But it's really good for landscaping, street photography, architecture and family photos. Nifty fifty is good too, but just not enough for most other stuff than portraits. You can fix the fisheye effect in editing. The Sony have 24/50/80mm right?

                    Nick Tegrataker, 05 Nov 2023Sensors don't sharpen images, but the post-processing does.I know that. It is done by the ISP.

                      EsseLowNitro, 05 Nov 2023Second thing you got wrong is that reducing the resolution ... moreWhat I meant is that for the same size sensor, increasing individual pixel size reduces the number of pixels that can be laid out.

                      signal to noise ratio of sensors is proportional to surface area of each pixel, so there are some advantages in having fewer bigger pixels.

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                        Zendroid, 04 Nov 202324MP is more than enough. Just needs better optics and bigg... moreIt doesn't work this way.
                        You can change camera lenses, but not your phones.
                        I don't like 24mm, for example, because it's wide and the edges of the photo look bad. Better to have 35mm, imho.
                        And about resolution, if you want to take a x2 photo, but your resolution less than 48 Mp, you can't just use crop for 12 Mp photo.

                          EsseLowNitro, 05 Nov 2023Second thing you got wrong is that reducing the resolution ... moreFor example, it seems like a 1/1.33" sensor with 12.5 MP resolution would yield us 2.68 micrometer pixels, which are pretty big, compared to the 0.67um produced by a same size sensor of 50 MP resolution (that needs to do 4-to-1 binning to achieve the same pixel size, going back to 12.5 MP anyways).

                          In the 12.5 MP sensor case I described, with super resolution/pixel shift, we could have 40+ MP photos keeping the same 2.68um pixel size. That would be amazing and actually useful.

                          Even if processors today aren't really capable of doing super resolution processing fast enough, ASIC accelerators could be created for it if companies diverted a small portion of their bogus artificial "intelligence" R&D budgets for a project like this. Maybe the AI promoters are lacking in human intelligence tho.

                            Eric20, 04 Nov 2023https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&idPhone1=... moreSecond thing you got wrong is that reducing the resolution of sensors to increase pixel size would be bad. Enormous resolutions might as well be useless for normal shots as we bin down pixels from 50, 108, 200 MP back again to ~12 MP anyways. Enormous resolutions might as well be useless for zoom shots too, as flagships have dedicated telephoto cameras now, and because each pixel has such a small pitch on their own that you'd need to combine 4, 9, 16 of them to produce a meaningful pixel, they're really just bumping sensor resolution for the "WOW!" factor, to make products more attractive for the average consumer.

                            If we had sensors as big as the average main sensor in today's flagships, with good old "I always come back!" ~12 MP resolutions, we'd have naturally big pixels (which are more useful than binned pixels) and the room to do super resolution processing (also called pixel shift, which modern processors are more than capable of doing), to get (in this example) 40+ MP photos with meaningful detail *now actually added* by the enormous resolution.

                              What is interesting about this sensor is that it supports three different conversion gain modes and the description suggests that outputs from those modes are combined to produce a single 14-bit image. Good stuff.

                                Eric20, 04 Nov 2023https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&idPhone1=... moreSensors don't sharpen images, but the post-processing does.

                                  Darth Caesium, 04 Nov 2023https://semiconductor.samsung.com/image-sensor/mobile-image... moreNo, it doesn't. "Dual Pixel Pro" isn't referring to Google's Pixel series lol.

                                    Anonymous, 04 Nov 2023Omnivision OV50H has dynamic range up to 140db. Samsung lac... moreOmnivision's own spec sheet suggests that OV50H achieves "100+ dB dynamic range when using DCG" - I have no idea where you pulled that 140db figure from.

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                                      I'm amped for this

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                                        Eric20, 04 Nov 2023https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&idPhone1=... moreYou have knowledge on cameras ™

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