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New OmniVision camera sensor shoots 16MP stills, 4K video

23 May, 2012 | Read the news | Post your comment
New OmniVision camera sensor shoots 16MP stills, 4K video - read the full textIf you haven't heard of OmniVision, you should know make some pretty good camera sensors (the one in the iPhone 4, for example). Today they outed the OV16820, a 16MP sensor intended for use in digital cameras and the high-end smartphones The sensor measures 1/2.3" and uses OmniVision's...

 

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> In reply to grif @ 2012-05-23 15:41 from fXuP - click to readYou're right. people are for sure loosing their minds and care for numbers only. It's cool and everything. But personaly, if i wanted to make some high quality photo/video, i would choose gadgets originaly ment for this kind of task.

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  • 2012-05-23 15:49
  • nX%E

okay you guys say this is pointless now.

bt just watch when the next galaxy s model doesnt come with 4k you'll be cry and saying why no 4k, samsung let us down again.

just watch itll happen. the tech youre dismissing now is the tech you'll be crying for a yr from now.

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  • 2012-05-23 15:41
  • fXuP

I personally would prefer a smaller MP count, if it means a better low light sensor

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  • 2012-05-23 15:41
  • w6Xm

Do not need 4K video!!

Give me 720p Super-Slow motion and I'll be happy, I guess it should be possible.

Even less rez, I wouldn't mind!

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  • 2012-05-23 15:36
  • 0wm7

One word: Pureview. Kiss

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  • 2012-05-23 15:35
  • 3nwh

> In reply to kodn @ 2012-05-23 14:48 from sxtB - click to readif your bikes a 250cc doesnt mean your are going to ride it at the speed of 180kmph :)

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  • 2012-05-23 15:13
  • vGY{

> In reply to Stifler @ 2012-05-23 14:20 from N7AQ - click to readThat's what people used to say about dual and quad cores, but its all very much here and performing.

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  • 2012-05-23 15:04
  • nxX0

> In reply to bluesean @ 2012-05-23 14:35 from vGu3 - click to readActually it is true. x=1920, y=1080. fullHD is x*y=xy. 4k2k is 2x*2y=4xy see

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  • 2012-05-23 15:04
  • piHe

> In reply to Nightmare @ 2012-05-23 13:50 from LHkm - click to readlol, copyright Martin Lawrence. :D

It would be good to see these being used in conjunction with Super High definition screens when they are fully R&D'd and proper Quad cores (probably on the second generation of quads) but this development will probably be some time away.

Meh, 1080p will have to do for the time being. *sigh*

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  • 2012-05-23 15:03
  • nxX0

iphone 5 ???

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  • 2012-05-23 15:02
  • fv$G

To person below your right,if a quadcore chip @1.4GHz and Mali 400 cant preccess this camera sensor then what will..I mean if this is going into digicams as well can we expect fans/heatsinks in cameras to cool the chips on baord.What will happen is a companion proccessor will probably sit alonside the sensor chip just like on Nokia 808 PureView..

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  • 2012-05-23 15:02
  • Sj1A

for a person that do not know much it will be LIKE crazy over it

Those that know will tell you 1/2.3 come on the nokia n8 2 years old is already 1/1.83

and nokia pureview 808 is 1/1.2

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  • 2012-05-23 14:54
  • RJiw

Holy crap. The Exynos 5450 might be able to run it.

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  • 2012-05-23 14:49
  • q8Q8

What are you going to do with a 3840 x 2160 video at 30fps?
Even a 128GB version of a phone will lack space from a video of that caliber.

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  • 2012-05-23 14:48
  • sxtB

If they make good camera sensors they would make their own compact cameras.
Sony`s sensors are by far better.
1/2.3 immage sensor is still smaller than the nokias n8 and not miles near the Nokia`s 808 PureView.
Full hd with 60frames sounds nice.
Nice but nothing spectacular. :)

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  • 2012-05-23 14:40
  • 0T3G

Is there anyone else aside from me who thinks that OmniVision is possibly Nokia's "secret" co-developer of the companion chip? :)

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  • 2012-05-23 14:39
  • th6H

videos of this resolution will also require a lot of memory to store which is also a drawback

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  • 2012-05-23 14:36
  • vGe}

4K2K (3840 x 2160, four times the resolution of 1080p) video at 60fps.

I think this ^^ is not correct
1080P is 2K because its 1920 x 1080
where as 3840 x 2160 = 4K which means twice the resolution of 1080P and Yes to attain this we need four screens of 1080P

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  • 2012-05-23 14:35
  • vGu3

Now I can forget the Red EPIC and all related hassle and buy a phone and a lens adapter and make commercials and short movies :)

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  • 2012-05-23 14:31
  • ajNh

4k video, there ynu have it, 808 pureview just got outdated. This is why i hate the current mobile tfchology, it evolves too fast

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  • 2012-05-23 14:22
  • 3q5b
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