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Xiaomi teases phone with 48MP camera, coming in January

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Peter 05 December 2018

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Earlier this year Xiaomi opened an in-house camera division and committed to delivering premium image quality. Now company co-founder and President Lin Bin is teasing a photography monster. And he does so with modesty.

He posted a close up of an upcoming Xiaomi phone – to be released in January, he says – and the “48MP camera” label can’t escape the attention. Bin has used this phone for a few weeks and describes it as “not bad”.

We guess you don’t need to brag when you have the highest resolution mobile sensor ever. The mighty Nokia 808 PureView had a 41MP sensor, the latest Huawei Mate 20 Pro has a 40MP sensor (quad Bayer). Actually, this kind of sensor is so rare that we can only think of two.

The Sony IMX586 is a 48MP quad Bayer sensor that was announced in July. It’s a large 1/2” sensor, but it has so many pixels that each one measures just 0.8µm. The other option is the Samsung Bright GM1 48MP sensor from October. It also has 0.8µm pixels (no word on the sub-pixel matrix, however).

This kind of sensors use pixel binnnig to improve image quality, but their high pixel count also enables high-quality digital zoom. Still, Huawei put a dedicated telephoto module on the Mate 20 Pro, it would be interesting to see if Xiaomi does the same or if it follows Google’s mantra that one good camera can do everything with the right image processing.

Source (in Chinese) | Via

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  • Anonymous
  • 2Iq
  • 07 Dec 2018

It's good to know Xiaomi is challenging the limits of computational photography.

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  • Dragos
  • mtk
  • 06 Dec 2018

Not quantity matters, but quality. For example, a Samsung phone takes better pictures than a Xiaomi that has a bigger camera. All cars have four wheels and a steering wheel, but not all are Mercedes ...

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  • Nick Tagataka
  • Y}P
  • 06 Dec 2018

In photography, the sensor size is what matters the most. Given exactly the same processing and equally well designed lens, a camera with a larger sensor will always outperform the one with a smaller sensor.

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